Participaction
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 107820433RR0001 · Public Amenities · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($8,834,608) as filed with the CRA.
Participaction is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under public amenities. 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 $8.9M in revenue and $8.8M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 9% from donations, 90% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $500.
Compared with 276 public-amenity institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 72% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 24 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
Public education and communications regarding sport and physical activity participaction in canada generating and communicating knowledge abut active health lifestyles to canadian partnership development for effective program development and delivery through out canada
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $8.9M | $8.8M | $8M | — | — | $1.7M |
| 2023 | $12.9M | $12.9M | $12.4M | — | — | $1.7M |
| 2022 | $8.3M | $8.3M | $7.7M | — | — | $1.6M |
| 2021 | $9.6M | $9.6M | $9M | — | — | $1.6M |
| 2020 | $11.3M | $11.4M | $10.8M | — | — | $1.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $500 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9992 positions
- $120,000–159,9993 positions
- $80,000–119,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions24
- Total compensation, all staff$2.7M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Mike Kaplan (director); Laura Richard (chair); Melanie Wright (vice chair); Camilla Sutton (director); Andrew Lue (director); Paul Oh (director); Jane Thorton (director); Chris Saniga (director); Dan Oiumet (director); Allison Radford (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Participaction’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 107820433RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.