Friends in Toronto Community Services
Publicly funded institution · North York, Ontario · BN 805286457RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($231,872) as filed with the CRA.
Friends in Toronto Community Services is a charitable organization based in North York, 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 $274K in revenue and $232K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 93% from government, 7% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $324.
Compared with 1,890 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 1% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $40,000–79,999 range. The charity reported 2 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $174K in 2020 to $274K in 2024.
In its own words
Friends in Toronto delivers programs for families living in poverty. Our afterschool program develops leadership skills academic ability and team work. We provide healthy snacks to these youth and a safe alternative to the streets. Through our recreation dance program we build the self worth confidence and resiliency of children and youth who face financial barriers. Improving academic outcomes for low income and racialized population is the focus of our education program; tutoring advocacy; parent engagement workshops to increase the success of black and racialized families. Each year we…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $274K | $232K | $19K | — | — | $128K |
| 2023 | $243K | $236K | $236 | $0 | $0 | $298K |
| 2022 | $86K | $208K | — | — | — | $75K |
| 2021 | $423K | $287K | — | — | — | $0 |
| 2020 | $174K | $93K | $44K | $4,816 | $0 | $94K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $324 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions2
- Total compensation, all staff$158K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Friends in Toronto Community Services’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 805286457RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.