Dream Community Foundation
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 791367600RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,645,755) as filed with the CRA.
Dream Community Foundation is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.4M in revenue and $1.6M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 96% from other charities. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $1.3M.
Compared with 1,125 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 15% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range.
It reported gifts to 31 qualified donees totalling $1.1M in 2024, the largest being $383K to Play Forever. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
'dream community foundation (the 'foundation') was incorporated on june 25 2021 under the provision of part ii of the canada corporations act as a non profit corporation without share capital. It is a registered charity under the income tax act and as a result the organization is exempt from income taxation under section 149 of the income tax act. The purpose of the foundation it to relieve poverty and to address and prevent problems faced by vulerable populations including individuals and families who are vulnerable porr underserved under supported of limited means of low income or…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2024–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.4M | $1.6M | — | — | $1.1M | -$550K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1.1M to 31 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Play Forever$383K
- Sinai Health Foundation$150K
- UHN Foundation$143K
- Weston Frontlines Centre$56K
- The WoodGreen Foundation$50K
- The Bentway Conservancy$50K
- Right to Play International$40K
- The National Ballet of Canada/le Ballet National du Canada$36K
- The Toronto Public Library Foundation$25K
- CivicAction Leadership Foundation$25K
- Baby Love Beginnings$21K
- Regina & District Food Bank Inc.$20K
- Toronto Arts Foundation$10K
- National Arts Centre Foundation/fondation Centre National des Arts$10K
- Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada$10K
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Canada$10K
- The Regina Jazz Society Corp$5,114
- Parkdale Food Centre$5,000
- Ottawa Riverkeeper Inc.$5,000
- Ottawa Peace and Environment Resource Centre$5,000
- Moisson Outaouais$5,000
- Indigenous Women's Support Centre$5,000
- Habitat for Humanity Canada/habitat pour l'Humanité Canada$5,000
- Saskatchewan Jazz Festival Inc$3,223
- Girls E-Mentorship Innovation$3,000
Received $1.3M from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- Total compensation, all staff$307K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Hanley Koo (secretary); Krystal Koo (chair); Gordon Wadley (vice-preisdent).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Dream Community Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 791367600RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.