First Book/le Premier Livre
Public foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 888754603RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($4,642,630) as filed with the CRA.
First Book/le Premier Livre is a public foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $5.4M in revenue and $4.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 79% from donations. In 2024, 23 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $435K.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 55% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 8 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
National book bank: by utilizing relationships with recipient groups and publishers. First book/le premier livre provides free new books and educational materials throughout canada to programs serving low income children. Fb marketplace: online marketplace which sells low-cost high-quality books/resources to programs serving children in need. Alternatively the fb marketplace allows corporate partners to provide contributions to first book which allow recipient groups in select from the marketplace's offerings at no cost.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $5.4M | $4.6M | $4.1M | — | — | $32K |
| 2023 | $4.3M | $4.4M | $4M | — | — | -$688K |
| 2022 | $5M | $5.1M | $4.8M | — | — | -$635K |
| 2021 | $7M | $7.4M | $7M | — | — | -$601K |
| 2020 | $6.5M | $6.7M | $1.2M | — | $5.2M | -$174K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $435K from 23 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$75K
- Canadahelps Canadon$75K
- The Newlands Family Foundation$75K
- The Flanagan Foundation$50K
- Jays CARE Foundation$45K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$30K
- Coleman Leggitt Trust$13K
- United Way of Greater Toronto$12K
- Aqueduct Foundation$11K
- Toronto Foundation$11K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$6,500
- The Loretto Ladies' Colleges and Schools$5,000
- Dasaka Foundation$5,000
- Arno Family Foundation$5,000
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$4,290
- Canada Gives$3,000
- The Calgary Foundation$2,500
- BenefAction Foundation$2,000
- Beedie Luminaries Foundation$1,500
- Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal$1,200
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$885
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$555
- Burlington Public Library—
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
- $40,000–79,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions8
- Total compensation, all staff$591K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Tanis Feasby (chairperson); Kyle Zimmer (secretary); Julie Lavoie (board member); Luke Gee (board member); Ryan Peterson (board member); Rumeet Billan (board member); Alvaro Lozada Cauduro (board member); Adam Mamdani.
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from First Book/le Premier Livre’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 888754603RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.