East Toronto Family Community Centre
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 890447675RR0001 · Public Amenities · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,659,800) as filed with the CRA.
East Toronto Family Community Centre is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under public amenities. 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 $2.6M in revenue and $2.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 7% from donations, 51% from government, 12% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 17 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.2M.
Compared with 276 public-amenity institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 25% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 87% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 14 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
Provides educational recreational and social services including programs to assist new residents in adapting to their environment and intercultural services to educate and increase awareness amongst various ethnic groups to persons living within our eastern toronto community. Educational and social programs include: newcomer settlement services; a family resource centre; life skills services for youth food bank and food access programs for low-income families; and new canadian skills development. Recreational and social service programs include: services for the elderly; a boys and girls cl…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.6M | $2.7M | $1.9M | $1,068 | — | $212K |
| 2023 | $2.6M | $2.7M | $2M | $1,068 | — | $247K |
| 2022 | $2.6M | $2.6M | $2M | $1,068 | — | $258K |
| 2021 | $2.2M | $2.2M | $1.6M | $4,674 | — | $263K |
| 2020 | $2.3M | $2.3M | $1.6M | $2,228 | — | $265K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $1.2M from 17 charities:
- United Way of Greater Toronto$302K
- Daily Bread Food Bank$281K
- Boys and Girls Clubs of Canada/Les repaires jeunesse du Canada$242K
- Canadahelps Canadon$86K
- Canadahelps Canadon$86K
- Shoppers Foundation for Women's Health$40K
- Kids Up Front Foundation (toronto)$30K
- United Way of Greater Toronto$26K
- Tippet Foundation$20K
- The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation$15K
- The Kiwanis Club of Toronto Foundation$10K
- Boys and Girls Clubs of Canada Foundation Fondation les Repaires Jeunesse du Canada$5,800
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$5,652
- The Toronto Star Children's Charities$4,560
- Mazon Canada$3,500
- The EJP For Good Foundation$1,244
- The Kiwanis Club of Riverdale Charitable Foundation$500
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
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions14
- Total compensation, all staff$2.1M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Rebecca Heersink (chair); Farhan Chaudhary (vice-chair); Abas Barra (treasurer); Rob Mackinnon (secretary); Andrea Nameth (member); Paula Fletcher (city council appointed); Mubarak Baker (member); Jennifer King (member); Courtney Fitton (member); Claire Lukka (member); Dalreen Fobler (member); Lauren Lee (member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from East Toronto Family Community Centre’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 890447675RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.