Mississauga Community Legal Services
Publicly funded institution · Mississauga, Ontario · BN 119043594RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,556,721) as filed with the CRA.
Mississauga Community Legal Services is a charitable organization based in Mississauga, Ontario, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. 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 $2.7M in revenue and $2.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 97% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $67K.
Compared with 829 community-service institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 75% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 33 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
Operate a legal clinic providing advice and/or representation to low income residents of mississauga.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.7M | $2.6M | $2.4M | — | — | $236K |
| 2023 | $2.6M | $2.2M | $2.1M | — | — | $417K |
| 2022 | $2.6M | $2.4M | $2.2M | — | — | $181K |
| 2021 | $2.6M | $3M | $2.7M | — | — | -$70K |
| 2020 | $2.5M | $2.6M | $2.3M | — | — | $275K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $67K from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9997 positions
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions33
- Total compensation, all staff$2M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Latania Dyer (director); Sabrina Karmali (executive director); Nishat Kazmi (director); Shari Lynn Ladanchuk (director); Andre Lyn (chair); Naeem Merchant (treasurer); Nancy Mukhija (vice chair); Ricky Pinto (director); Shruti Ramesh (director); Nora Simpson (director); Lori Bennett (director); Tony Nguyen (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Mississauga Community Legal Services’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119043594RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.