FCJ Refugee Centre
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 869781062RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($4,541,896) as filed with the CRA.
FCJ Refugee Centre is a charitable organization based in Toronto, 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 $4.3M in revenue and $4.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 11% from donations, 65% from government, 18% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 21 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $782K.
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 9% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (4 positions in that band). The charity reported 15 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 4 qualified donees totalling $705K in 2024, the largest being $389K to Peoples Ministries Inc.. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.4M in 2020 to $4.3M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
Fcj refugee centre serves refugee and other at risk due to their immigration status and welcomes anyone asking for advice counsel and support regarding these issues. They also provide shelter run community based programs provide education to promote self help personal growth community economic development health care clinic and access to relevant social programs.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.3M | $4.5M | $2.6M | $262K | $705K | $631K |
| 2023 | $3.9M | $3.8M | $2.4M | $216K | $409K | $915K |
| 2022 | $3M | $2.7M | $1.9M | $104K | $403K | $724K |
| 2021 | $2.2M | $2.1M | $1.5M | $103K | $159K | $464K |
| 2020 | $1.4M | $1.2M | $928K | $101K | — | $281K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $705K to 4 qualified donees:
Received $782K from 21 charities:
- The Northpine Foundation$245K
- The Maytree Foundation$211K
- United Way of Greater Toronto$100K
- Canadahelps Canadon$43K
- Canadahelps Canadon$43K
- The Sisters of Social Service$25K
- Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Toronto$25K
- The Conn Smythe Foundation$20K
- Blue Sea Philanthropy Inc.$15K
- Abundance Canada$11K
- The Daly Foundation$10K
- The Loretto Ladies' Colleges and Schools$10K
- Women's Inter-Church Council of Canada$5,000
- Salal Foundation$5,000
- The Basilian Fathers of Toronto$4,000
- Our Lady's Missionaries$4,000
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$3,402
- First Narayever Congregation$1,500
- CHUM Charitable Foundation$1,300
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$507
- Congregation of Notre Dame Visitation Province Inc.—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9994 positions
- $40,000–79,9996 positions
- Permanent full-time positions15
- Total compensation, all staff$2.6M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Sharry Aiken (chair); Sheriff Alimi (director); Jehad Aliweiwi (vice chair); Lois Anne Bordowitz (past chair); Eusebio Garcia (director); Christine Gebel (treasurer); Sandra Gonzalez (director); Tigest Gulbet (director); Zahara Hojati (director); Joe Mihevc (director); Yosief Araya (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from FCJ Refugee Centre’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 869781062RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.