Santa Comes to Bay Street
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 830898813RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($225,355) as filed with the CRA.
Santa Comes to Bay Street is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending August 31, 2024, it reported $160K in revenue and $225K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 90% from donations. In 2024, 4 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $67K.
Compared with 2,470 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 28% of peers.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
The establishment and maintenance of a community organization for the purposes of providing goods to marginalized persons in the greater toronto area including but not limited to seasonal and holiday gifts and school supplies; and receiving and maintaining a fund or funds and applying all or part of the principal and income therefrom from time to time to charitable organizations that are also registered charities under the income tax act canada.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $160K | $225K | $171K | $36K | — | $301K |
| 2023 | $166K | $124K | $92K | $16K | — | $366K |
| 2022 | $107K | $98K | $76K | — | — | $324K |
| 2021 | $170K | $114K | $98K | — | — | $315K |
| 2020 | $172K | $170K | $163K | — | — | $260K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $67K from 4 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Stephanie Orloff (president and co-founder); Robert Cancelli (chairman); David Keggin (vice-president); Carol Elmalem (head of procurement); Brian Tsang (treasurer); Bryan Blake (head of fundraising); Kris Backus (head of operations / sec).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Santa Comes to Bay Street’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 830898813RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.