Right to Play International
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 888804218RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($58,557,099) as filed with the CRA.
Right to Play International is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $58.9M in revenue and $58.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 9% from donations, 33% from government. In 2024, 48 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.5M.
Compared with 34 community-service charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 73% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $350,000 and over range. The charity reported 474 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
The corporation is a global organization that protects educates and empowers children to rise above adversity using the power of play. We reach millions of children each year in some of the most difficult places on earth helping them to stay in school and graduate resist exploitation overcome prejudice prevent disease and heal from the trauma of war. For more than 20 years we have delivered programs with impact in both development and humanitarian contexts. Headquartered in toronto canada the corporation operates program offices in 14 countries across africa asia the middle east and …
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $58.9M | $58.6M | $47.8M | $1.8M | $7.5M | $16.3M |
| 2023 | $57.2M | $55.4M | $45.8M | $1.7M | $6.5M | $16M |
| 2022 | $57.5M | $54.6M | $51.1M | $2M | $5.7M | $14.2M |
| 2021 | $47.9M | $45.3M | $41.8M | $1.6M | — | $11.2M |
| 2020 | $43.5M | $39.7M | $37.1M | $2.1M | — | $8.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $1.5M from 48 charities:
- Suncor Energy Foundation/fondation Suncor Energie$200K
- MacLellan Charitable Trust$163K
- MLSE Foundation$125K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$120K
- The Peter Gilgan Foundation$100K
- United Way of Greater Toronto$79K
- Carthy Foundation$79K
- The PepsiCo Canada Foundation$75K
- Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto$50K
- Larry And Judy Tanenbaum Family Foundation$50K
- Canada Post Community Foundation/Fondation Communautaire de Postes Canada$50K
- The Charles H. Ivey Foundation$50K
- The Nixon Charitable Foundation$50K
- Canadahelps Canadon$41K
- Canadahelps Canadon$41K
- Dream Community Foundation$40K
- Conam Charitable Foundation$28K
- The Sixty Three Foundation$25K
- M.E.H. Foundation$20K
- Cidel Foundation$17K
- Harrison-Cooper Foundation$15K
- The Peterborough K. M. Hunter Charitable Foundation$15K
- R. Howard Webster Foundation$15K
- The Nixon Charitable Foundation$15K
- Lifetime Charitable Foundation$10K
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
- $250,000–299,9994 positions
- $200,000–249,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions474
- Total compensation, all staff$25.6M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Kate McGilvray (director/ chair); Rebecca Winthrop (director); Matt Tedford (director treasurer); Mehrdad Noorani (director); Kristin Skauan Kleven (director); Mireille Abujawdeh (director); Larry Tanenbaum (director); Rehmah Kasule (director); Andrew Pickersgill (director); Martin Bidermann (director); Aissa Traore (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Right to Play International’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 888804218RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.