Skills for Change of Metro Toronto
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 121471858RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($9,597,335) as filed with the CRA.
Skills for Change of Metro Toronto is a charitable organization based in Toronto, 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 March 31, 2024, it reported $9.8M in revenue and $9.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 7% from donations, 88% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 8 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $82K.
Compared with 1,247 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 29% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 107 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $6.1M in 2020 to $9.8M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
The organization operates employment training centres and offers a variety of programs and services designed to assist immigrants and refugees participate in the canadian workplace and integrate into canadian society. The organization offers employment training programs and services settlement services for newcommers language training occupation specific information sessions and mentoring.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $9.8M | $9.6M | $7.9M | $163K | — | $2.2M |
| 2023 | $7.4M | $7.1M | $6M | $11K | — | $2.1M |
| 2022 | $6M | $5.9M | $5.4M | $1,006 | — | $1.9M |
| 2021 | $6.6M | $6.5M | $6.1M | $16K | — | $1.7M |
| 2020 | $6.1M | $6M | $5.6M | $45K | — | $1.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $82K from 8 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9993 positions
- $80,000–119,9996 positions
- Permanent full-time positions107
- Total compensation, all staff$5.3M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Alex Petrovic (special advisor); Azim Lila (special advisor); Christina Fung (director); Janice Charko (treasurer); Nicole Pitt (director); Vijay Dhayaleeswaran (chair); Maja Neable (vice-chair); Mohamed Razaleigh Farook (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Skills for Change of Metro Toronto’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 121471858RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.