Doug Philpott Inner-City Children's Tennis Fund
Charitable organization · East York, Ontario · BN 891270548RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($539,224) as filed with the CRA.
Doug Philpott Inner-City Children's Tennis Fund is a charitable organization based in East York, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $455K in revenue and $539K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 98% from donations. In 2024, 14 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $134K.
Compared with 2,470 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 20% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 1 permanent full-time position.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $79K in 2020 to $455K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
Provide free tennis instruction to underprivileged children at tennis camps primarily during summer at locations in the toronto area
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $455K | $539K | $367K | $59K | — | $390K |
| 2023 | $479K | $510K | $372K | $39K | $23K | $475K |
| 2022 | $385K | $543K | $410K | $32K | $32K | $506K |
| 2021 | $433K | $356K | $271K | $43K | — | $663K |
| 2020 | $79K | $128K | $56K | — | — | $587K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $134K from 14 charities:
- The Michael Young Family Foundation$25K
- The Charles Johnson Charitable Fund$22K
- The McLean Foundation$20K
- Kids Up Front Foundation (toronto)$19K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$15K
- RBC Foundation$10K
- The Andy and Beth Burgess Family Foundation$5,000
- Gordon & Ruth Gooder Charitable Foundation$5,000
- Toronto Foundation$5,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$4,508
- United Way of Greater Toronto$1,499
- Odette Federer Family Foundation$1,000
- Canadahelps Canadon$701
- Burgundy Legacy Foundation$515
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
- Permanent full-time positions1
- Total compensation, all staff$428K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jennifer Bishop (board chair); Adam Borovilos (treasurer); Eleanor O'Gorman (vice chair); Sharon Arnold (secretary); Arlen Sternberg (director); Kosty Gillis (director); Peter Giacomelli (director); Cindy O'Doherty (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Doug Philpott Inner-City Children's Tennis Fund’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 891270548RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.