Roots Community Services Inc.
Publicly funded institution · Brampton, Ontario · BN 869254425RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,628,655) as filed with the CRA.
Roots Community Services Inc. is a charitable organization based in Brampton, 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 $3.4M in revenue and $3.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 64% from government, 33% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 11 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $391K.
Compared with 829 community-service institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 12% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (3 positions in that band). The charity reported 41 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $864K in 2020 to $3.4M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Family Counselling Seniors Program Children & Youth Programs Violence Against Women Program/Counselling Men's Program/Counselling Community Support Line Gender-Based violence Prevention Program/Counselling Community Engagement & Mobilization (High Priority Community Strategy) Substance Abuse Program for African Canadian and Caribbean Youth (SAPACCY) Social Enterprising & Entrepreneurial Development program for wome
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.4M | $3.6M | $2.7M | $3,845 | — | -$21K |
| 2023 | $3.4M | $3.4M | $2.5M | $3,117 | $2,000 | $179K |
| 2022 | $2.8M | $2.6M | $2.2M | $733 | — | $191K |
| 2021 | $1.3M | $1.3M | $1.1M | — | — | -$34K |
| 2020 | $864K | $859K | $727K | $6,647 | — | -$55K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $391K from 11 charities:
- United Way of Greater Toronto$273K
- Canadian Women's Foundation$38K
- Canadahelps Canadon$26K
- Canadahelps Canadon$26K
- Canadian Women's Foundation$25K
- Streetsville United Church$1,425
- CHUM Charitable Foundation$1,050
- Canadian Women's Foundation$1,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$499
- The Peel District School Board$400
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$160
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- $40,000–79,99938 positions
- Permanent full-time positions41
- Total compensation, all staff$2.7M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Andrea Randall (president); Althea Smikle-Brown (director); Carol Nicholson (treasurer); Arvind Krishendeholl (secretary); Colin McLean (vice president); Leo Campbell (director); Akin Oduntan (director); Douglas Carter (director); Patricia Wilson (immediate past president).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Roots Community Services Inc.’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 869254425RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.