Regesh Family & Child Services
Publicly funded institution · North York, Ontario · BN 107881195RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($773,259) as filed with the CRA.
Regesh Family & Child Services is a charitable organization based in North York, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. 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 $987K in revenue and $773K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 6% from donations, 82% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 4 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $9,665.
Compared with 1,890 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 77% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (4 positions in that band). The charity reported 6 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $316K in 2020 to $987K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
The charity carried on the operation of an outpatient program for counselling street and at-risk youth and also a program for the treatment of youth and their families in an anger management clinic. The charity also provides a family support program of counselling for families and family members. Empowering youth: employment readiness program is designed to help youth ages 15-30 find and keep a job by providing in-class training and finding and supporting job placement. Skills development: aims to help youth overcome barriers to employment develope a broad range of skills and knowledge in …
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $987K | $773K | $725K | — | — | $604K |
| 2023 | $393K | $509K | $493K | — | — | $380K |
| 2022 | $477K | $423K | $400K | — | — | $506K |
| 2021 | $528K | $245K | $239K | — | — | $452K |
| 2020 | $316K | $359K | $331K | — | — | $170K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $9,665 from 4 charities:
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
- $1–39,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions6
- Total compensation, all staff$266K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Darren Chilewitz (board chair); Ben Price (member-at-large); Brenda Schild (secretary); Shauna Merkur (member-at-large); Lisa Cohen (member-at-large); Yaakov Levenson (treasurer); Steven Garbman (member-at-large).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Regesh Family & Child Services’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 107881195RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.