Friends of Ruby
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 709180889RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($6,879,016) as filed with the CRA.
Friends of Ruby is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $5.7M in revenue and $6.9M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 26% from donations, 49% from government, 15% from other charities. In 2024, 23 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $825K.
Compared with 1,125 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 16% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $120,000–159,999 range (7 positions in that band). The charity reported 46 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $10M in 2020 to $5.7M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 13 names.
In its own words
Friends of Ruby is dedicated to the progressive well-being of 2SLGBTQIA+ youth through social services and housing. Our services and programs are led and facilitated by 2SLGBTQIA+ individuals informed by 2SLGBTQIA+ Youth and grounded in evidence and research. We are committed to creating welcoming and safer spaces and to delivering and promoting wellbeing comprehensively including mental health housing wellness education employment inclusion and prevention through activities that meet LGBTQI2S Youth needs. Friends of Ruby Youth Centre provides support through drop-in services five …
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $5.7M | $6.9M | $4.8M | $428K | — | $11.1M |
| 2023 | $5.4M | $6.1M | $4.3M | $502K | — | $12.4M |
| 2022 | $4.7M | $5.3M | $3.9M | $420K | — | $13M |
| 2021 | $6.6M | $4.2M | $3.2M | $366K | — | $13.6M |
| 2020 | $10M | $2.6M | $1.8M | $252K | — | $12.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $825K from 23 charities:
- The Home Depot Canada Foundation$200K
- Balsam Foundation$200K
- United Way of Greater Toronto$87K
- Toronto Foundation$76K
- The Peterson Foundation$50K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$47K
- Canadahelps Canadon$28K
- Canadahelps Canadon$28K
- MLSE Foundation$25K
- TD Securities Underwriting Hope Fund$25K
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$17K
- United Way Golden Horseshoe$10K
- M.E.H. Foundation$10K
- Youth and Philanthropy Initiative Canada/Initiative Canada Jeunesse et Philanthropie$5,000
- Vancouver Foundation$4,050
- Jays CARE Foundation$4,000
- Mazon Canada$3,100
- Toronto District School Board$2,185
- Arbor Memorial Foundation$2,000
- Smith Family Foundation$1,500
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$145
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$50
- Troop Impact Foundation—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9997 positions
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions46
- Total compensation, all staff$3.9M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Paul Boniferro (director); Edmund Clark (board chair); Keith Hambly (director); Malcolm Lang (treasurer); Jen McCain (vice chair); Martha McCain (director); Catherine Meade (secretary); David Reycraft (director); Sheerin Sheikh (director); Brian Smith (director); Marianne Smith (director); Andrea Tsuji (director); Nadine Sookermany (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Friends of Ruby’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 709180889RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.