Charity BreakdownCanadian charity filings, itemized

Pathways to Education Canada/Passeport pour ma réussite Canada

Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 861908499RR0001 · Support of Schools and Education · website

Your $100, itemizedPathways to Education Canada/Passeport pour ma réussite CanadaFiscal year ended March 31, 2024
Gifts to other charities$51
Charitable programs$31
Fundraising$9
Management & admin$8
Other$1
TOTAL$100
RegisteredPublicly funded

Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($38,833,962) as filed with the CRA.

Pathways to Education Canada/Passeport pour ma réussite Canada is a public foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under support of schools and education. 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 $41.1M in revenue and $38.8M in expenditures.

Its funding that year was roughly 11% from donations, 52% from government, 16% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 87 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $7.7M.

Compared with 733 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 29% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $350,000 and over range. The charity reported 64 permanent full-time positions.

As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 24 qualified donees totalling $27.4M in 2024, the largest being $7.5M to Compass Community Health. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.

In its own words

Pathways to education canada is a national charitable organization breaking the cycle of poverty through education. Its award-winning program creates positive social change by supporting youth living in low-income communities to overcome barriers to education graduate from high school and build the foudnation for a successful future. High school dropout rates in low-income communities across canada can be more than double the national average. Youth living in these communities face increased barriers to education that can stand in the way of graduating resulting in a widening achievemen…

Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.

The ledger, 2020–2024

YearRevenueSpendingProgramsFundraisingGifts outNet assets
2024$41.1M$38.8M$12.1M$3.3M$19.9M$15.7M
2023$38.3M$38.3M$11.8M$3.3M$19.9M$13.4M
2022$35M$33.8M$9.6M$3M$19.2M$13.4M
2021$33.6M$29M$6M$2.1M$18.2M$12.2M
2020$31.7M$31.7M$5M$3.3M$20.5M$7.7M

Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.

Money between charities, 2024

Granted $27.4M to 24 qualified donees:

Received $7.7M from 87 charities:

As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.

What it pays

Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:

  • $350,000 and over1 position
  • $250,000–299,9991 position
  • $160,000–199,9992 positions
  • $120,000–159,9996 positions
  • Permanent full-time positions64
  • Total compensation, all staff$8.1M

Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.

Directors & trustees (2024)

Lori Pearson (vice-chair); Pamela Sugiman (director); David Ain (director); Nisita Tappata (director); Vincent Mercier (chair); Katherine Gibson (treasurer); Myriam Legault (director); Fabrice Morin (director); Darren Googoo (director); Stacey Grant-Thompson (director); Bassem Shakeel (director).

As listed on its 2024 return.

Check the source

Every figure on this page is from Pathways to Education Canada/Passeport pour ma réussite Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 861908499RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.