Erdo
Charitable organization · Mississauga, Ontario · BN 875912701RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-09-30. Split of total expenditures ($13,507,540) as filed with the CRA.
Erdo is a charitable organization based in Mississauga, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, it reported $12.4M in revenue and $13.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 68% from donations, 17% from other charities. In 2024, 164 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.4M.
Compared with 147 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 40% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 22 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 7 qualified donees totalling $1.1M in 2024, the largest being $916K to Villages of Hope: Africa Society. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Childcare plus: international child sponsorship program that provides orphaned or other needy children with access to school food water housing and medical care. Crisis reponse and disaster relief: responds to world crisis where appropriate with long and short term assistance. Community development: contributes to the creation of stronger communities through education and other forms of assistance.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $12.4M | $13.5M | $10.5M | $1M | $1.1M | $7.2M |
| 2023 | $17.1M | $18.1M | $15.3M | $730K | $1.3M | $8.4M |
| 2022 | $14.7M | $13.3M | $12.2M | $546K | $1.6M | $9.4M |
| 2021 | $11.5M | $10M | $8.8M | $597K | $1.1M | $7.9M |
| 2020 | $10.9M | $10.7M | $8.4M | $522K | $1.2M | $6.4M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1.1M to 7 qualified donees:
- Villages of Hope: Africa Society$916K
- Loads of Love Humanitarian Aid & Mission Society$136K
- Home of the Good Shepherd Ministries Inc.$38K
- Every Day Ministries Canada$32K
- The Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada/les Assemblees de la Pentecote du Canada$20K
- Random Access Networks Association$6,387
- The Tyndale Foundation$100
Received $1.4M from 164 charities:
- JM Ministries Canada$326K
- Canadian Foodgrains Bank Association Inc/association de la Banque Canadienne de Grains Inc.$179K
- Pentecostal Assemblies of Newfoundland and Labrador Corporation$107K
- Link Charity Canada Inc$73K
- The Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada/les Assemblees de la Pentecote du Canada$64K
- The Great Commission Foundation$50K
- World Charitable Foundation of Canada$42K
- Calvary Community Church$39K
- David Ash Family Foundation$34K
- Glad Tidings Pentecostal Church$33K
- Canadahelps Canadon$29K
- Canadahelps Canadon$29K
- Portico Community Church$25K
- Broadway Pentecostal Church$24K
- Christian Stewardship Services$20K
- Sunday Line Communications Society$20K
- BenefAction Foundation$20K
- Abbotsford Christian School Society$18K
- Western Ontario District of the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada$17K
- Random Access Networks Association$13K
- Canadian National Christian Foundation$13K
- Calvary Temple Winnipeg Inc.$13K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$12K
- Pentecostal Assemblies of Newfoundland and Labrador Corporation$11K
- Evangel Temple$10K
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
- $80,000–119,9998 positions
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions22
- Total compensation, all staff$1.9M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Murray Cornelius (chairman); David Wells (director); Michel Bisaillon (director); Len Hummel (director/treasurer); Ivan Butler (director); Douglas Crouse (director/secretary); Mary Ann Charters (director); Jennifer Crits (director); Laurence Wallace (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Erdo’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 875912701RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.