Operation Springboard
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 119069094RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($11,442,329) as filed with the CRA.
Operation Springboard is a charitable organization based in Toronto, 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 $12.1M in revenue and $11.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 91% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 11 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $123K.
Compared with 115 community-service institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 40% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 94 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
Delivery of day and residential programs for youth and adults. Operation of day programs and group homes for the developmentally disabled. Employment counsellings services.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $12.1M | $11.4M | $10.2M | $23K | — | $7.4M |
| 2023 | $11.7M | $11K | $10.3M | $52K | — | $6.7M |
| 2022 | $12.8M | $12.5M | $11.4M | $9,568 | — | $6.3M |
| 2021 | $14M | $13.8M | $12.4M | $37 | — | $6.1M |
| 2020 | $13.3M | $12.9M | $11.8M | $15K | — | $5.8M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $123K from 11 charities:
- RBC Foundation$50K
- The Bedolfe Foundation$50K
- Fondation Philantra Philantra Foundation$11K
- Toronto Foundation$5,000
- Kids Up Front Foundation (toronto)$3,916
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$1,177
- Fondation Philantra Philantra Foundation$1,000
- CHUM Charitable Foundation$500
- WCPD Foundation$500
- CHUM Charitable Foundation$250
- Canadahelps Canadon$139
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9993 positions
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions94
- Total compensation, all staff$7.8M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jeff King (treasurer); Deborah Newman (chair); Agostino Russo (director); Susan Steer (vice chair); Wendy Leaver (director); Cheryl Tjok-A-Tam (director); Kevin Jeewan (director); Sudah Dwevidi (director); Lidia Monaco (chief executive officer); Antoni Wisniowski (director); Jeffrey Allain (director); Cathy Hennessey (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Operation Springboard’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119069094RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.