Hester How Early Learning Centre
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 892019472RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,019,248) as filed with the CRA.
Hester How Early Learning Centre is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. 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 $2.1M in revenue and $2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 65% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2023, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $293.
Compared with 829 community-service institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 93% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 20 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
The organization provides comprehensive child care programs for children from the ages of three months up to and including five years
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2023–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.1M | $2M | $2M | — | — | $563K |
| 2023 | $2M | $1.9M | $1.9M | — | — | $507K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2023
Received $293 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9998 positions
- Permanent full-time positions20
- Total compensation, all staff$1.8M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Shamim Bhimani (parent rep); Denis Carr (secretary); Hane Chung (vice president); Andrea Gomez Palacio S (parent rep); Silvia Gonzalez (parent rep); Andres Jarrin (parent rep); Anne Keller (parent rep); Carol Kim (president); Candice Xenakis (treasurer).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Hester How Early Learning Centre’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 892019472RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.