High Park Initiatives
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 866389505RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-05-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,057,873) as filed with the CRA.
High Park Initiatives is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. In its fiscal year ending May 31, 2024, it reported $1.2M in revenue and $1.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 16% from donations, 6% from government, 14% from other charities. In 2024, 11 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $210K.
Compared with 299 community-service charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 42% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 20 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $50 in 2024, the largest being $50 to Birds Canada / Oiseaux Canada. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $783K in 2020 to $1.2M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 13 names.
In its own words
The charity operates the High Park Nature Centre (HPNC) in High Park Toronto. The HPNC is an environmental education facility that focuses on connecting people to nature. The HPNC programs and activities increase awareness of the ecology of the park and opportunities for participation in the stewardship of High Park's natural areas. This is accomplished through a variety of programs for example walking tours workshops school field trips nature clubs (afterschool and weekend caregiver accompanied and drop off) day camps and more. The programs are aimed at increasing the public's awarenes…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.2M | $1.1M | $867K | $30K | $50 | $952K |
| 2023 | $1.2M | $1M | $738K | $107K | $250 | $826K |
| 2022 | $963K | $765K | $596K | $66K | — | $714K |
| 2021 | $724K | $618K | $455K | $58K | — | $516K |
| 2020 | $783K | $780K | $577K | $50K | — | $416K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $50 to 1 qualified donee:
Received $210K from 11 charities:
- Park People$90K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$57K
- Weston Family Foundation$20K
- The George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation$15K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$6,620
- TD Friends of the Environment Foundation$5,900
- The Toronto Star Children's Charities$5,460
- Burlington Community Foundation$4,511
- Canadahelps Canadon$4,443
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$962
- Toronto Foundation$500
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
- $1–39,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions20
- Total compensation, all staff$747K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Gurjinder Gill (director at large); Heather Johnston (interim president/chair); John Jazwinski (treasurer); Robin Sorys (ex-officio); Sara Street (executive director ex-officio); Su Hutchinson (president/chair); Kayla Kaster (director at large); Shane Rajapakse (ex-officio); Sahhara Leckie (director at large); Brittany Murphy (director at large); Lorne Orleans (interim secretary); Adrienne Paul-Hus (director at large); Rohith Rao (ex-officio acting executive d).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from High Park Initiatives’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 866389505RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.