Families for Addiction Recovery
Charitable organization · North York, Ontario · BN 770935724RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,378,193) as filed with the CRA.
Families for Addiction Recovery is a charitable organization based in North York, Ontario, classified by the CRA under core health care. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $1.4M in revenue and $1.4M in expenditures.
In 2024, 5 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $24K.
Compared with 453 health charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 94% of peers.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $409K in 2020 to $1.4M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
Families for addiction recovery (far) operates a parent-to-parent support program which provides peer support over the phone by parents with lived experience for parents whose children are struggling with addiction as well as group peer support and a phone support line. Far maintains a website (farcanada.org) which provides extensive educational materials about addiction treatment for substance use disorder (sud) support for families and other issues involving sud. Far maintains facebook twitter and instagram social media accounts to educate families and the general public in matters respec…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.4M | $1.4M | $1.4M | — | — | $118K |
| 2023 | $1.3M | $1.3M | $1.3M | — | — | $121K |
| 2022 | $858K | $834K | $823K | — | — | $100K |
| 2021 | $1.3M | $1.3M | $1.3M | — | — | $76K |
| 2020 | $409K | $422K | $411K | — | — | $82K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $24K from 5 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Peter McCarter (chairman and director); Angelique Hamilton (exc. director & director); Louise White (secretary and director); David Addison (director); Barbara Watts (director); Hamish White (director); Dona ST-Amant (director); Brynlea Barbeau (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Families for Addiction Recovery’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 770935724RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.