Scarboro Foreign Mission Society
Charitable organization · Scarborough, Ontario · BN 119142164RR0001 · Support of Religion · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,389,673) as filed with the CRA.
Scarboro Foreign Mission Society is a charitable organization based in Scarborough, Ontario, classified by the CRA under support of religion. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $5.3M in revenue and $2.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 15% from donations. In 2024, 8 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $24K.
Compared with 2,238 religious charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 44% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group.
It reported gifts to 10 qualified donees totalling $661K in 2024, the largest being $200K to The University of ST. Michael's College. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.9M in 2020 to $5.3M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
The scarboro foreign mission society (the 'society') strives to serve in creative and new endeavours where the gospel has not been heard and to collaborate with the catholic church in canada and other countries in generating an enthusiasm for global missions and the promotion of gospel values.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $5.3M | $2.4M | $1.4M | — | $661K | $35.6M |
| 2023 | $3.6M | $2.4M | $1.3M | — | $748K | $34.7M |
| 2022 | -$3.4M | $3.1M | $1.6M | — | $966K | $33.1M |
| 2021 | $6.3M | $2.5M | $1.5M | — | $659K | $38.8M |
| 2020 | $1.9M | $2.8M | $1.6M | — | $921K | $34.4M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $661K to 10 qualified donees:
- The University of ST. Michael's College$200K
- Canadian Religious Stewardship$100K
- St. Augustine's Seminary of Toronto$100K
- Societe des Missions-Etrangeres de la Province de Quebec$100K
- The Society for the Propagation of the Faith for Canada English Sector$82K
- Our Lady's Missionaries$50K
- Becoming Neighbours Joint Apostolic Ministry$19K
- The Canadian Council of Churches$5,000
- The Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation of Mackenzie-Fort Smith$3,000
- Camp Micah: Leadership for Peace and Justice$2,000
Received $24K from 8 charities:
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$12K
- Norman P Nordin Memorial Fund$8,215
- Stanislaw Grabowiecki (george Stephen Stanley) Memorial Foundation$2,000
- The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act$1,007
- Carmen and Frances d'Intino Charitable Trust$490
- Toronto Foundation$412
- The Reverend E.J. D'Intino Charitable Trust$340
- Canadahelps Canadon$288
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Total compensation, all staff$190K
Schedule 3 of its 2022 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Ronald Macdonell (president); John Carten (treasurer); David Warren (secretary); John Boissonneau (vocal).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Scarboro Foreign Mission Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119142164RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.