Growing Neighbourhoods Foundation
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 734726680RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($735,309) as filed with the CRA.
Growing Neighbourhoods Foundation is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $671K in revenue and $735K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 7% from donations, 87% from other charities. In 2024, 14 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $651K.
Compared with 730 community-service charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 56% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 18 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
Fresh health food provision to low income residents of dowtown east. Gardening programs with volunteer opportunities for low income population in downtown and east toronto. Providing food delivery to seniors health and safefy information and activities to vulnerable seniors and families during in the moss park area a low income community in toronto
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $671K | $735K | $642K | — | — | $3,284 |
| 2023 | $746K | $878K | $790K | $1,092 | — | $99K |
| 2022 | $768K | $901K | $794K | $9,824 | — | -$174K |
| 2021 | $776K | $700K | $671K | — | — | $364K |
| 2020 | $704K | $430K | $420K | — | — | $288K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $651K from 14 charities:
- P. and L. Odette Charitable Foundation$150K
- Balsam Foundation$125K
- The Sprott Foundation$100K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$70K
- The Sprott Foundation$50K
- Canadahelps Canadon$32K
- Canadahelps Canadon$32K
- Fondation Écho /echo Foundation$30K
- The Azrieli Foundation$30K
- McLean Smits Family Foundation$10K
- The McLean Foundation$10K
- Aqueduct Foundation$7,000
- Toronto Foundation$5,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$721
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9994 positions
- $1–39,99911 positions
- Permanent full-time positions18
- Total compensation, all staff$441K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Caroline Clair (director at large); Verlia Stephens (community chair); Monique Kavanagh (board chair); Van Der Vooren Jessica (treasurer).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Growing Neighbourhoods Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 734726680RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.