Durham Children's Aid Foundation
Public foundation · Oshawa, Ontario · BN 854260940RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,173,239) as filed with the CRA.
Durham Children's Aid Foundation is a public foundation based in Oshawa, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $1.2M in revenue and $1.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 48% from donations, 5% from other charities. In 2024, 20 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $385K.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 15% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 85% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 3 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $718K in 2020 to $1.2M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
'the foundation's mission is to bring people and financial resources together to improve the quality of life for children and youth involved with durham children's aid society. The areas supported by the foundation are services that are not covered by goverment funding. On going programs include: post secondary education program - provides bursaries to assist youth associated with durham cas to attend college university or trade programs; summer camp program - provides subsidies for families receiving services from durham cas where the children remain in the home. Youth are provided with…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.2M | $1.2M | $730K | $20K | — | $872K |
| 2023 | $1.1M | $1.1M | $705K | $42K | — | $881K |
| 2022 | $874K | $787K | $428K | $70K | — | $826K |
| 2021 | $1.5M | $1.1M | $828K | $36K | — | $733K |
| 2020 | $718K | $668K | $440K | $75K | — | $300K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $385K from 20 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$142K
- Canadahelps Canadon$142K
- RBC Foundation$40K
- TELUS Friendly Future Foundation$15K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$11K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$8,655
- The Tenaquip Foundation$8,000
- My Charity Fund$6,400
- The Toronto Star Children's Charities$5,770
- Oshawa Parkwood Rotary Club Charitable Foundation$1,500
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$1,323
- Faith United Church$1,050
- TELUS Friendly Future Foundation$749
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$722
- Oshawa Parkwood Rotary Club Charitable Foundation$500
- Kiwanis Club of Oshawa Education Foundation$500
- Deer Creek Cares Charitable Foundation$500
- United Way of Greater Toronto$32
- Children's Aid Foundation of Canada—
- Children's Aid Foundation of Canada—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions3
- Total compensation, all staff$359K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Ruth Nyaamine (director); Kevin Vankampen (director); Patricia Millburn (director); Kristina Moreau (director); Jaclyn Bannan (treasurer); Kristy Lynn Brown (director); Becky Cameron (chair); Robert Kiefer (director); Mark Bachman (director); Lori Casselman (vice president).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Durham Children's Aid Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 854260940RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.