Jays CARE Foundation
Public foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 890847189RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-11-30. Split of total expenditures ($23,220,577) as filed with the CRA.
Jays CARE Foundation is a public foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending November 30, 2024, it reported $21.2M in revenue and $23.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 11% from donations, 7% from other charities. In 2024, 28 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.6M.
Compared with 380 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 30% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 94% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 40 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 257 qualified donees totalling $3.9M in 2024, the largest being $252K to Canucks Autism Network Society. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $8.3M in 2020 to $21.2M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 18 names.
In its own words
Rbi se (reviving baseball in inner cities - summer edition) - free afternoon baseball-for-development program hosted at priority schools running morning summer school programs that complement summer school. Field of dreams - provides funding to refurbish/build capital projects dedicated to providing safe youth spaces across canada challenger baseball - adaptive baseball program designed specifically to empower children and youth living with cognitive and/or physical disabilities. Girls at bat - a girls-centric baseball program designed to provide physical activity as well as life and leader…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $21.2M | $23.2M | $13.8M | $4.5M | $3.9M | $22.2M |
| 2023 | $26.8M | $19.9M | $9.4M | $5.2M | $4.5M | $24.2M |
| 2022 | $19.2M | $14.8M | $5.6M | $4.6M | $4M | $17.3M |
| 2021 | $12.8M | $8.7M | $4.5M | $1.9M | $1.8M | $12.9M |
| 2020 | $8.3M | $7.9M | $3.4M | $979K | $3M | $8.8M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $3.9M to 257 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Canucks Autism Network Society$252K
- The Corporation of the Village of Fruitvale$135K
- Spirit North$131K
- Recreation and Parks Association of Nunavut$97K
- Kenora Chiefs Advisory$86K
- TDSB - Business Development$84K
- Touchwood Agency Tribal Council$82K
- Tribal Chiefs Ventures Inc$75K
- Maamwesying North Shore Community Health Services$71K
- File Hills Qu'Apelle Tribal Council$67K
- City of Kelowna$65K
- Municipality of Strathroy-Caradoc$63K
- Lac La Ronge Indian Band$56K
- Interlake Reserves Tribal Council Inc.$52K
- Boys and Girls Clubs of South Coast BC$50K
- Boys and Girls Club of Niagara$50K
- Boys and Girls Club of Durham$49K
- Mississaugas of Credit First Nation$49K
- Louis Bull Tribe$49K
- Huron Perth Catholic District School Board$48K
- First Book/le Premier Livre$45K
- Chippewas of Kettle and Stony Point First Nation$45K
- The Corporation of the Village of Burk's Falls$45K
- Stuttering Association for the Young: Canada$44K
- Upper Ottawa Valley Little League$44K
Received $1.6M from 28 charities:
- The Annual Foundation$750K
- The Sprott Foundation$345K
- Fondation Mirella & Lino Saputo$150K
- Fondation Mirella & Lino Saputo$95K
- Doane Grant Thornton Foundation$75K
- AFC Foundation$60K
- Indigo Love of Reading Foundation$25K
- R. Howard Webster Foundation$25K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$22K
- The Toronto Star Children's Charities$16K
- The William and Nona Heaslip Foundation$15K
- Muskoka Woods Youth Foundation$15K
- Glentel Foundation$14K
- Canadahelps Canadon$7,538
- Proaction Cops & Kids$5,732
- The Canavan Family Foundation$5,000
- The Henry White Kinnear Foundation$5,000
- Aqueduct Foundation$3,000
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Canada$2,900
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$2,050
- BenefAction Foundation$2,000
- F & CS Employees Charity Fund Inc$1,000
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$657
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$500
- United Way of Greater Toronto$236
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9993 positions
- $80,000–119,9996 positions
- Permanent full-time positions40
- Total compensation, all staff$8.9M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Stuart Hutcheson (vice chair/secretary & treasur); Robert Witchel (director); Peter Dawe (director); James Dodds (chairman of the board); Patrick Bliley (director); John Macintyre (director); Daniel Nowlan (director); Melanie Teed-Murch (vice chair/secretary & treasur); Mark Shapiro (director); Charlie Angelakos (director); Joe Canavan (director); Alison Leung (director); Salim Teja (director); Colette Watson (director); Poonam Puri (director); Navdeep Bains (director); Marnie Starkman (director); Paul Loussarian (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Jays CARE Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 890847189RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.