Discovery Early Learning and Care
Publicly funded institution · Garson, Ontario · BN 738693696RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($5,510,376) as filed with the CRA.
Discovery Early Learning and Care is a charitable organization based in Garson, Ontario, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. It appears on the charity register the way hospitals, universities, and other publicly funded bodies do — to issue tax receipts — rather than as a donation-driven charity in the usual sense. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $5.8M in revenue and $5.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 66% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2021, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $157.
Compared with 829 community-service institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 49% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 114 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $3.3M in 2020 to $5.8M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
Provide daycare and early learning services to families in the greater sudbury area.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $5.8M | $5.5M | $4.9M | $13K | — | $643K |
| 2023 | $4.8M | $4.8M | $4.3M | $17K | — | $399K |
| 2022 | $4.4M | $4.4M | $4.1M | $14K | — | $408K |
| 2021 | $4.4M | $4.2M | $3.9M | $8,235 | — | $945K |
| 2020 | $3.3M | $3.3M | $3M | $5,718 | — | $249K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2021
Received $157 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9999 positions
- Permanent full-time positions114
- Total compensation, all staff$4.5M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Alison Caruso (chair); Melissa Gaskin (director); Caroline Gordon (director); Krystal Kant (treasurer); Heather Keaney (director); Jeffrey Marsh (secretary); Tracy Saarikoski (executive director); Kathryn Webb (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Discovery Early Learning and Care’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 738693696RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.