Emmanuel at Brighton Child CARE Centre
Publicly funded institution · Waterloo, Ontario · BN 101630812RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,271,824) as filed with the CRA.
Emmanuel at Brighton Child CARE Centre is a charitable organization based in Waterloo, 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 December 31, 2024, it reported $3.5M in revenue and $3.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 67% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $4,305.
Compared with 1,618 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 55% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 29 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.7M in 2020 to $3.5M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
Provide day care services for children up to 5 years of age. Both part time and full time are available and provide various activities for the stimulation and development of the children. Summer activity camps are also available for children ages 6 to 9 years.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.5M | $3.3M | $3M | $2,292 | — | $1.6M |
| 2023 | $3.2M | $2.9M | $2.7M | $607 | — | $1.4M |
| 2022 | $1.1M | $985K | $833K | $55K | — | $1.1M |
| 2021 | $2.4M | $2.1M | $1.8M | $267 | — | $924K |
| 2020 | $1.7M | $1.6M | $1.3M | $1,894 | — | $624K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $4,305 from 2 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9998 positions
- Permanent full-time positions29
- Total compensation, all staff$2.6M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Vanessa Parks (secretary); Grant Saepharn (director); Carly Greco (director); Meizi Liu (treasurer); Serena McDiarmid (director); Scott Prevost (chair); Lesley-Anne Steeleworthy (vice chair); Allison Jutzi (director); Onyedikachukwu Ebe (director); Xue Hao (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Emmanuel at Brighton Child CARE Centre’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 101630812RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.