Merrymount Children's Centre
Publicly funded institution · London, Ontario · BN 107692303RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($8,345,556) as filed with the CRA.
Merrymount Children's Centre is a charitable organization based in London, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. 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 March 31, 2024, it reported $8.2M in revenue and $8.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 5% from donations, 80% from government, 8% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 20 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $840K.
Compared with 1,618 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 43% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 75% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $120,000–159,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 50 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
Short-term licensed childcare programs crisis respite/residential program - 18 beds for children 0-12 short-term family resources program - parenting groups children's groups support for children with special needs supervised access programs
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $8.2M | $8.3M | $7.4M | $308K | — | $0 |
| 2023 | $7.4M | $7.4M | $6.6M | $273K | — | $0 |
| 2022 | $7.1M | $7.3M | $6.6M | $140K | — | $0 |
| 2021 | $7.2M | $7.4M | $6.7M | $201K | — | $0 |
| 2020 | $8.2M | $8.4M | $7.7M | $153K | — | $0 |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $840K from 20 charities:
- Merrymount Foundation Inc$619K
- Hockey Helps the Homeless/hockey Aide les Sans-Abri$50K
- United Way Elgin Middlesex$36K
- Woco Foundation$30K
- The Arcangelo Rea Family Foundation$20K
- Aqueduct Foundation$18K
- London Community Foundation$12K
- Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph in Canada$10K
- The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation$10K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$9,620
- Canadahelps Canadon$9,164
- United Way Elgin Middlesex$5,271
- Nicolaas and Regina Veenboer Foundation$3,300
- Great Lakes Copper Employees Charitable Contributions Organization$1,900
- Kiwanis Club of Forest City - London$1,750
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,360
- Montessori Academy of London Inc.$500
- London Hydro Employees' Charities Chest Fund$500
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$467
- Mowbray and Doris Sifton Family Foundation$375
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
- $80,000–119,9994 positions
- $40,000–79,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions50
- Total compensation, all staff$5.5M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Adam Steele (president); Hina Islam (director); Paul Romanson (director); Olaf Plotzke (director); Tori Laird (director); Sarah Hutchison (vice-president); Sarah Lagrove (director); David Brown (secretary); Louise Koza (director); Melissa Scott (director); Julie Richardson (director); Maria Cruz (treasurer).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Merrymount Children's Centre’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 107692303RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.