Parkdale Project Read Inc.
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 119080299RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($452,277) as filed with the CRA.
Parkdale Project Read Inc. 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 $435K in revenue and $452K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 80% from government, 16% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 12 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $154K.
Compared with 1,147 community-service institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 73% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 84% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (4 positions in that band). The charity reported 4 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
Literacy and basic skills training and academic upgrading for adults and youth; small group learning and one-to-one tutoring in areas including creative writing math grammar and other topics including women's issues community-building citizenship and other topics. We also offer homework help to the children of the adults who attend our program.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $435K | $452K | $424K | $416 | — | $0 |
| 2023 | $384K | $409K | $387K | $31 | — | $0 |
| 2022 | $407K | $425K | $362K | $27 | — | $0 |
| 2021 | $430K | $434K | $385K | $50 | — | $94K |
| 2020 | $421K | $404K | $327K | $1,468 | — | $98K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $154K from 12 charities:
- Toronto Foundation$48K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$34K
- The Norman and Marian Robertson Charitable Foundation$24K
- The Peter Gilgan Foundation$15K
- J.P. Bickell Foundation$10K
- J.P. Bickell Foundation$10K
- Canadahelps Canadon$9,836
- Gandy Charitable Foundation$500
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$464
- United Way of Greater Toronto$451
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$387
- Tahira & Iltihab Hassan Charitable Trust$259
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions4
- Total compensation, all staff$313K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Beverly Bird (co-chair/director); Annie Luk (director/treasurer); Emily Atherton (co-secretary); Katarzyna Rukszto (director); Natalia Balyasnikova (director); Sunny Sandhar (director); Valerie Damasco (director); Beverly Leung (director); Kate Atkinson (director); Man Sang Wong (director); Maria Moriarty (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Parkdale Project Read Inc.’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119080299RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.