Silver Creek Centre for Early Learning & Development
Publicly funded institution · Etobicoke, Ontario · BN 107980856RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,159,238) as filed with the CRA.
Silver Creek Centre for Early Learning & Development is a charitable organization based in Etobicoke, Ontario, classified by the CRA under teaching institutions. 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 $1.4M in revenue and $1.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 9% from donations, 62% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 9 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $43K.
Compared with 1,247 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 49% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 78% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 12 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
Programs consist of education physical therapy occupational therapy speech therapy and music therapy. Preschool programs are staffed by professionals and volunteers at 65 hartsdale drive in etobicoke ontario
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.4M | $1.2M | $1M | $77K | — | $1.4M |
| 2023 | $1.3M | $1.1M | $945K | $83K | — | $1.2M |
| 2022 | $1M | $1.1M | $984K | $68K | — | $966K |
| 2021 | $1M | $1M | $896K | $74K | — | $1M |
| 2020 | $934K | $712K | $611K | $46K | — | $1.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $43K from 9 charities:
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$19K
- The Hustler Young Men's Bible Class Foundation$5,000
- The Henslow-Brown Foundation$5,000
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$5,000
- The Hunt Family Charitable Foundation$5,000
- Kingsway Lambton United Church$3,000
- United Way of Greater Toronto$909
- Christian Stewardship Services$500
- My Tribute Gift Foundation—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9997 positions
- $1–39,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions12
- Total compensation, all staff$902K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Paul Allan (director); Edward Balatan (treasurer); Dayna Ellis (president); Jennifer Hines (secretary); Leslie Knighton (director); Irene Setnik (executive director); Amanda Smyth (director); Grace Zelek (vice president).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Silver Creek Centre for Early Learning & Development’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 107980856RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.