Finding Our Power Together
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 733417935RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($485,851) as filed with the CRA.
Finding Our Power Together is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. 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 $489K in revenue and $486K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 58% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 11 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $251K.
Compared with 1,147 community-service institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 99% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 2 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $202K in 2021 to $489K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
Ongoing programs include front line services for indigenous youths and communities across canada including individual counseling group psyche-education youth professional development arts-based programs and cultural experiences and ceremonies. Fundraising initiative continued throughout 2024. Also includes land-based healing camps a fit project and community training.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2021–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $489K | $486K | $546K | — | — | -$103K |
| 2023 | $196K | $207K | $120K | — | — | -$106K |
| 2022 | $150K | $277K | $243K | — | — | — |
| 2021 | $202K | $83K | — | — | — | $124K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $251K from 11 charities:
- The J W McConnell Family Foundation$150K
- Laidlaw Foundation$62K
- Indigenous Youth Roots Canada$16K
- Johansen-Larsen Foundation$10K
- Canadahelps Canadon$5,262
- Canada Post Community Foundation/Fondation Communautaire de Postes Canada$4,250
- The Calgary Foundation$2,000
- Toronto Foundation$1,215
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$180
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$150
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$150
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions2
- Total compensation, all staff$227K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Cecile Akiwenze (board member); Danika Charlebois (board member); Arlene Hache (board member); Hillory Tenute (board member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Finding Our Power Together’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 733417935RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.