Dr. Jay Children's Grief Centre
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 841536980RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2021-08-18. Split of total expenditures ($333,167) as filed with the CRA.
Dr. Jay Children's Grief Centre is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. 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 August 18, 2021, it reported $134K in revenue and $333K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 89% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2022, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $145.
Compared with 2,126 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 10% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 79% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $40,000–79,999 range. The charity reported 2 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
Dr. Jay Children's Grief Centre provides grief counselling and specialized programming to children youth and their families who are facing or grieving the death of a parent primary caregiver or sibling in the city of Toronto. Families come to us as a result of many difficult circumstances including palliative illness suicide homicide overdose and accidents. Our Centre provides young people a safe place to explore grief-related questions and feelings and provides support to families so they can continue to communicate openly about and maintain healthy connections to the person who has di…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2021
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | $134K | $333K | $174K | $50 | — | $68K |
| 2020 | $995K | $924K | $625K | $104K | — | $499K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2022
Received $145 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions2
- Total compensation, all staff$202K
Schedule 3 of its 2021 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2021)
Barbara Slater (chair); Arthur Wenglik (treasurer); Deb Galet (director); James Hirsch (director); Jennifer Lancaster (director).
As listed on its 2021 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Dr. Jay Children's Grief Centre’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 841536980RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.