Kohai Educational Centre
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 118986694RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,146,610) as filed with the CRA.
Kohai Educational Centre is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under teaching institutions. 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 August 31, 2024, it reported $1.3M in revenue and $1.1M in expenditures.
In 2024, 10 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $87K.
Compared with 1,247 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 86% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $120,000–159,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 13 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $707K in 2020 to $1.3M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
Kohai offers unique day and evening programs for adults with special needs and learning challenges including those with asd genetic disorders ld add adhd gdd behavior challenges or language disorders. In a small group setting the organization provides direct instruction with a full curriculum of life skills workplace skills and functioning academics to meet thesocial emotional and physical needs of program participants.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.3M | $1.1M | $1.1M | — | — | $3.7M |
| 2023 | $1.1M | $856K | $825K | — | — | $3.6M |
| 2022 | $771K | $674K | $648K | — | — | $3.4M |
| 2021 | $715K | $636K | $615K | — | — | $3.3M |
| 2020 | $707K | $764K | $387K | — | — | $3.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $87K from 10 charities:
- The Marion Armstrong Charitable Foundation$50K
- Canadahelps Canadon$16K
- The John C. and Sally Horsfall Eaton Foundation$9,000
- Oakville Community Foundation$5,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$1,954
- Toronto Foundation$1,500
- R. Howard Webster Foundation$1,250
- The Sherry Taylor Drew Foundation$1,250
- United Way of Greater Toronto$1,100
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$97
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9992 positions
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions13
- Total compensation, all staff$942K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Elizabeth Abrams (chair); Bill Calkins (director); Filippa Consiglio (treasurer); Joanna Ebbutt (secretary); John Mastrandea (director); Elizabeth-Anne Smith (director); Shelia Swerling-Puritt (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Kohai Educational Centre’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118986694RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.