Engage and Change
Public foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 805418647RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($572,966) as filed with the CRA.
Engage and Change is a public foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $301K in revenue and $573K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 46% from donations, 54% from other charities. In 2024, 9 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $101K.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 12% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 83% of that peer group.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $164K in 2020 to $301K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
We hold two events annually: Project Winter Survival (January 2024) and Project Water (June 2024). For each of this programs our corporate sponsors send their employees as volunteers to pack 3 500 kits that are distributed through social agencies in the GTA and Southwestern Ontario to homeless people living primarily on the streets. The winter kit is comprised of a sturdy backpack containing a toque scarf winter gloves and thick socks hygiene items such as deodorant soap toothbrush & toothpaste lip balm Band-Aids tissue moisturizer sanitizer masks etc. along with a refillable w…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $301K | $573K | $311K | $4,354 | — | $200K |
| 2023 | $252K | $377K | $207K | $13K | — | $227K |
| 2022 | $241K | $419K | $396K | $14K | — | $204K |
| 2021 | $276K | $435K | $413K | $17K | — | $191K |
| 2020 | $164K | $172K | $155K | $6,784 | — | $103K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $101K from 9 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jody Steinhauer (founding member & exec directo); Rhonda Best (treasurer); Michelle Jursa (director); Laurie Gutmann (director); Jaden Parisi (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Engage and Change’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 805418647RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.