Operation Dawn Canada
Charitable organization · Scarborough, Ontario · BN 855472346RR0001 · Support of Religion · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($194,798) as filed with the CRA.
Operation Dawn Canada is a charitable organization based in Scarborough, Ontario, classified by the CRA under support of religion. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $191K in revenue and $195K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 41% from donations, 19% from other charities. In 2024, 19 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $152K.
Compared with 14,125 religious charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 34% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 90% of that peer group.
It reported gifts to 5 qualified donees totalling $13K in 2024, the largest being $8,000 to Life Spring Mission. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
To provide a recovery facility for substance abuse clients to quit their addiction through spiritual therapy religious education counseling and mutual support and build up their solid religious characters for their better future life. Educate the public about problem of substance abuse and how to avoid drugs.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $191K | $195K | $144K | $13K | $13K | $734K |
| 2023 | $171K | $159K | $95K | $8,296 | $4,200 | $738K |
| 2022 | $178K | $158K | $114K | $5,537 | $4,750 | $725K |
| 2021 | $180K | $166K | $117K | $15K | $2,000 | $706K |
| 2020 | $200K | $183K | $136K | $16K | $7,000 | $692K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $13K to 5 qualified donees:
Received $152K from 19 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$55K
- Canadahelps Canadon$55K
- North York (chinese) Baptist Church$11K
- Hanson and Vivian Goe Foundation$7,000
- Fuyang Future Education Foundation$5,000
- Association of Christian Evangelical Ministries (Canada)$4,790
- Vancouver Foundation$3,000
- North Toronto Chinese Baptist Church$2,400
- Toronto Christian Community Church$2,000
- Toronto Emmanuel Church$1,200
- Toronto Chinese Methodist Church$1,000
- Hamilton Chinese Alliance Church$1,000
- Whitby Oshawa Chinese Baptist Church$600
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$590
- Brampton Evangelical Missionary Church$500
- Peoples Gospel Church$500
- Pacific Grace MB Church$450
- Stone Bridge Baptist Church$300
- St. Christopher's Anglican Church$300
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Total compensation, all staff$36K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Tuen Tuen Lai (director); Warren LI (president); Danny Yang (director); Simon Lau (director); Yuk Ming Chan (director); Ken Ma (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Operation Dawn Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 855472346RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.