Fred Victor Centre
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 118931377RR0001 · Christianity · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($55,730,962) as filed with the CRA.
Fred Victor Centre is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under christianity. 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 $55.8M in revenue and $55.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 5% from donations, 79% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 102 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $3.8M.
Compared with 29 religious institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 33% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 455 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $35.4M in 2020 to $55.8M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 18 names.
In its own words
Fred Victor is a dynamic innovative rapidly growing multi-service non-denominational organization with a 130-year track record of supporting people experiencing homelessness living on very low incomes or struggling with mental health issues/illness. Fred Victor is committed to ending homelessness one person at a time. We operate 621 units of housing (transitional housing supported housing and permanent affordable housing) for approximately 780 men women and families. We offer a continuum of services to address root causes of homelessness including street outreach drop-ins emergency s…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $55.8M | $55.7M | $48.1M | $1.3M | — | $16.4M |
| 2023 | $59.3M | $48.5M | $42.9M | $1.5M | — | $16.4M |
| 2022 | $46.4M | $45.9M | $41.8M | $1.1M | — | $5.5M |
| 2021 | $43.9M | $43.8M | $40.1M | $894K | — | $5M |
| 2020 | $35.4M | $35.2M | $32.2M | $675K | — | $4.9M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $3.8M from 102 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$731K
- Canadahelps Canadon$731K
- Maple Leaf Centre for Action on Food Security$191K
- United Way of Greater Toronto$167K
- Daily Bread Food Bank$155K
- The Slaight Family Foundation$110K
- The Sprott Foundation$110K
- Moez & Marissa Kassam Foundation$105K
- The H. John McDonald Foundation$95K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$92K
- The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation$70K
- Toronto Foundation$69K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$68K
- Hodgson Family Foundation$60K
- The Taylor Family Foundation$55K
- La Fondation Emmanuelle Gattuso$50K
- Acorn Seed Foundation$50K
- The Ouellette Family Foundation$50K
- Donald Bainbridge Family Foundation$50K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$47K
- The United Church of Canada$41K
- Fondation Écho /echo Foundation$40K
- BenefAction Foundation$32K
- Canada Gives$32K
- The Bickle-Wilder Foundation$30K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9995 positions
- $120,000–159,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions455
- Total compensation, all staff$35.3M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Neill Carson (vice chair); Jawad Kassab (chair); Christina Topp (director); Muwanguzi Ssebaggala (director); Michele Erskine (vice chair); John Hinds (director); Prossy Nambatya (director); Nancy Easton (secretary); Chris Anastasopoulos (director); Anne Bell (director); Ken McKinnon (director); Mardi Daley (director); Anju Nair (director); Richard Gill (director); Tzen-Yi Goh; Grant Gonzales (director); Erik Landriault (director); Monica Masciantonio.
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Fred Victor Centre’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118931377RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.