Little People of Ontario
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 889278974RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($34,118) as filed with the CRA.
Little People of Ontario is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $26K in revenue and $34K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 40% from government. In 2024, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $552.
Compared with 1,274 community-service charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 37% of peers.
Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $48K in 2020 to $26K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
Started in 1965 and operated entirely by volunteers the Little People of Ontario (LPO) is a provincial registered charitable organization that provides life-long fellowship support and information to people of short stature their families and friends in Ontario. Through peer support and personal example our members are supportive of all those who reach out to LPO by providing medical environmental educational vocational and parental guidance. LPO provides a Medical Conference with peer-to-peer support programming for persons of short stature (dwarfism) and parents with children of sh…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $26K | $34K | $28K | $73 | — | $146K |
| 2023 | $41K | $48K | $25K | $17K | — | $154K |
| 2022 | $49K | $38K | $23K | — | $0 | $0 |
| 2021 | $24K | $25K | $18K | $1,516 | $0 | $149K |
| 2020 | $48K | $13K | $6,640 | $968 | $0 | $151K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $552 from 2 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Permanent full-time positions0
- Total compensation, all staff$11K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Allan Redford (director president & co-sec); Edward Elms (director co-vp co-secretary); Susan Flowers (director c-vice-president); Huu Thanh (David) Huynh (director treasurer); Susan Berzins (director co-membership coord.); Carrol Paleothodoros (director); Emily Elliot (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Little People of Ontario’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 889278974RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.