Open Arms Early Childhood Centre Barrie
Publicly funded institution · Barrie, Ontario · BN 875656217RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,509,283) as filed with the CRA.
Open Arms Early Childhood Centre Barrie is a charitable organization based in Barrie, 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 December 31, 2024, it reported $1.5M in revenue and $1.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 66% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $790.
Compared with 829 community-service institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 57% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 23 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $20K in 2024, the largest being $20K to Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $897K in 2020 to $1.5M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
Running a non profit day nursery open to all infants and children through age 11 regardless of nationality creed or gender.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.5M | $1.5M | $1.3M | — | $20K | $629K |
| 2023 | $1.5M | $1.4M | $1.2M | — | $10K | $650K |
| 2022 | $1.3M | $1.3M | $1M | — | $20K | $539K |
| 2021 | $1M | $1M | $904K | — | — | $533K |
| 2020 | $897K | $805K | $729K | — | — | $509K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $20K to 1 qualified donee:
Received $790 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9997 positions
- $1–39,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions23
- Total compensation, all staff$1.1M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jennifer Bingley (secretary); Thomas Hatzitolios (treasurer); Maggie McDaniel (director); Teresa Mukikala (director); Katherine Wilson (chair).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Open Arms Early Childhood Centre Barrie’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 875656217RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.