International Children's Awareness
Charitable organization · ST Catharines, Ontario · BN 887858660RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-05-31. Split of total expenditures ($156,453) as filed with the CRA.
International Children's Awareness is a charitable organization based in ST Catharines, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending May 31, 2024, it reported $146K in revenue and $156K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 100% from donations. In 2024, 6 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $93K.
Compared with 2,470 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 35% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 93% of that peer group.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $97K in 2020 to $146K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Constructing schools in cameroon and also providing water projects such a latrines and water towers for villages in cameroon. Some of our other projects include providing uniforms textbooks and additional funds for teacher salaries for the schools. We have also provided funds for internally displaced students in cameroon to help pay for their school fees.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $146K | $156K | $126K | $89 | — | $56K |
| 2023 | $119K | $33K | $85K | $1,851 | — | $66K |
| 2022 | $152K | $136K | $122K | $12K | — | — |
| 2021 | $104K | $111K | $103K | — | — | $48K |
| 2020 | $97K | $84K | $79K | — | — | $55K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $93K from 6 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Total compensation, all staff$18K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Conrad Bereznicki (board member); Deanna Lindblad (secretary/board member); Edward Smith (founder/board member); Mason Brookwell (chair/board member); Gerald Laronde (board member); Vicki-Lynn Smith (treasurer/board member); Dennis Edell (board member); Lorraine Frost (board member); Meghan Lowery (board member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from International Children's Awareness’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 887858660RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.