Firefly - Physical Emotional Developmental and Community Services
Publicly funded institution · Kenora, Ontario · BN 107591356RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($19,209,546) as filed with the CRA.
Firefly - Physical Emotional Developmental and Community Services is a charitable organization based in Kenora, 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 March 31, 2024, it reported $19.5M in revenue and $19.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 70% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 3 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $63K.
Compared with 427 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 position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 126 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 5 qualified donees totalling $10K in 2024, the largest being $10K to Kenora Catholic District School Board. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
The centre provides children's mental health services and developmental services such as speech/language pathology occupational therapy physiotherapy autism diagnostic and autism support programs. The centre operates two family resource programs. The centre sponsors two local community programs that provides recreational opportunities. Centre operates a pre-school speech and language program and blind low-vision program.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $19.5M | $19.2M | $15.4M | — | $10K | $2.6M |
| 2023 | $18.5M | $18.4M | $14.7M | — | $400 | $2.3M |
| 2022 | $18.5M | $18.5M | $14.8M | — | $820 | $2.3M |
| 2021 | $16.2M | $16M | $12.8M | — | $100K | $2.2M |
| 2020 | $15.8M | $15.4M | $12.3M | — | $2,000 | $2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $10K to 5 qualified donees:
Received $63K from 3 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9999 positions
- Permanent full-time positions126
- Total compensation, all staff$13.1M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Carlynne Bell (director); Chris Bonner-Vickers (director); Alisha Tasti-Hill (treasurer); Sarah-Lynn Klassen (vice-chair); Debbie Larson (secretary); Crystal Page (director); Kim Varas (chair); Jared Ralko (member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Firefly - Physical Emotional Developmental and Community Services’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 107591356RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.