New Circles Community Services
Charitable organization · North York, Ontario · BN 836343673RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,338,061) as filed with the CRA.
New Circles Community Services is a charitable organization based in North York, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending August 31, 2024, it reported $2.3M in revenue and $2.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 15% from donations, 32% from government, 39% from other charities. In 2024, 44 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $798K.
Compared with 1,125 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 28% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 86% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 16 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 13 names.
In its own words
New circles is an innovative agency that offers clothing services community referrals and skills building programs to newcomers to canada residing in the greater toronto area. Our core programming includes the clothing program which provides basic necessities to 100-140 people daily. Our clothing program is set up like a 'department store' model. Uniquely designed we offer a retail shopping experience with free gently used clothing that not only preserves dignity for clients but also provides a learning platform for training in retail and customer service skills. With our small staff comple…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.3M | $2.3M | $1.8M | $240K | — | $1.7M |
| 2023 | $2.1M | $1.9M | $1.7M | $113K | — | $1.8M |
| 2022 | $1.9M | $1.9M | $1.6M | $133K | — | $1.6M |
| 2021 | $1.7M | $1.3M | $1.1M | $97K | — | $1.5M |
| 2020 | $1.6M | $1.2M | $1M | $80K | — | $1.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $798K from 44 charities:
- The Caring Foundation$150K
- Canadahelps Canadon$101K
- Canadahelps Canadon$101K
- The Sprott Foundation$55K
- RBC Foundation$50K
- Arrell Family Foundation$50K
- The Joan and Clifford Hatch Foundation$33K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$25K
- The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation$25K
- TELUS Friendly Future Foundation$20K
- C.B. Powell Foundation$15K
- Aqueduct Foundation$15K
- United Way of Greater Toronto$13K
- Toronto Foundation$12K
- Canado Foundation$11K
- Timothy Eaton Memorial Church$10K
- Frederick and Douglas Dickson Memorial Foundation$10K
- Beekay Foundation$10K
- The Sonor Foundation$10K
- Hodgson Family Foundation$10K
- The J W McConnell Family Foundation$10K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$9,400
- The Henry White Kinnear Foundation$7,500
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$5,450
- The Hebel Family Foundation$5,000
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
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- $40,000–79,9996 positions
- Permanent full-time positions16
- Total compensation, all staff$1.3M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Christine Blakely (founder and director); Melanie Lauber (director); Brenda McNeill (chair); Karen Stern (director); Robyn Boys (director); Sandra Chiu (treasurer); Sandra Winkelbauer (director); David Mousavi (vice chair); Shamima Adam (secretary); Charls Johnston (director); Grace Greatrex (director); Christine Doucet (director); Joan Arruda (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from New Circles Community Services’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 836343673RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.