Save the Children Canada/aide À l'Enfance Canada
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 107958621RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($53,945,582) as filed with the CRA.
Save the Children Canada/aide À l'Enfance Canada is a charitable organization based in Toronto, 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 December 31, 2024, it reported $50.8M in revenue and $53.9M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 25% from donations, 65% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 76 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.5M.
Compared with 427 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 8% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $300,000–349,999 range. The charity reported 91 permanent full-time positions.
In its own words
Save the Children Canada implemented programs focused on empowering girls and boys to fulfill their rights ensuring every last child has an equal opportunity to survive learn and be protected. This work included programs in health education protection economic empowerment and gender equality. In 2024 Save the Children Canada worked across multiple countries and contexts including but not limited to Gaza Ukraine Syria Colombia Peru Bolivia Niger Mozambique and Mali. Save the Children Canada worked in partnership with Indigenous Nations and organizations to support programming i…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $50.8M | $53.9M | $42.7M | $6.7M | $0 | $7.2M |
| 2023 | $72.7M | $72.1M | $62.4M | $6.4M | — | $8.3M |
| 2022 | $69.2M | $64.2M | $54.3M | $5.2M | $1M | $7.9M |
| 2021 | $51.3M | $50.1M | $41.1M | $5M | — | $7.1M |
| 2020 | $41.7M | $38.4M | $30.6M | $4.9M | — | $5.8M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $1.5M from 76 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$283K
- Canadahelps Canadon$283K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$131K
- Aqueduct Foundation$129K
- The Sonor Foundation$100K
- The Tree of Life Foundation Inc.$100K
- Unifor Social Justice Fund/Le fonds de justice sociale d'Unifor$80K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$49K
- Manitoba Council for International CO-Operation Inc.$47K
- BenefAction Foundation$47K
- Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal$29K
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$26K
- Noor Cultural Centre Canada$20K
- Steve and Sally Stavro Family Foundation$20K
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$18K
- Charles & Julie Bentall Family Foundation$16K
- Giselle Foundation$15K
- Vancouver Foundation$13K
- Fondation Familiale Gewurz/Gewurz Family Fondation$10K
- Temerty Foundation$10K
- Toronto Foundation$9,173
- 60 Million Girls / 60 Millions de Filles$7,686
- The Calgary Foundation$6,402
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$5,483
- Canada Gives$5,345
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $300,000–349,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9993 positions
- $120,000–159,9992 positions
- $80,000–119,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions91
- Total compensation, all staff$9.2M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Save the Children Canada/aide À l'Enfance Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 107958621RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.