Sleeping Children Around the World
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 131634396RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-02-28. Split of total expenditures ($2,249,102) as filed with the CRA.
Sleeping Children Around the World is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending February 28, 2024, it reported $1.9M in revenue and $2.2M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 84% from donations. In 2024, 97 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $216K.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 73% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 85% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $40,000–79,999 range. The charity reported 1 permanent full-time position.
Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $2.9M in 2020 to $1.9M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Sleeping children around the world provides bedkits to children in need in developing countries. Bedkits are largely comprised of a mat or mattress/bedding a mosquito net to combat the threat of malaria & other vector-borne diseases schoolbag and school supplies as well as clothing and footwear. All items are sourced locally in a developing country where possible with positive economic impact to the local community. Hundreds of trained volunteers travel to developing countries paying their own way to ensure the delivery of bedkits to children in need. Eight bedkit distributions were compl…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.9M | $2.2M | $2.1M | $54K | — | $10.2M |
| 2023 | $3.1M | $907K | $769K | — | — | $10.6M |
| 2022 | $1.9M | $286K | $152K | — | — | $8.4M |
| 2021 | $1.6M | $457K | $324K | $1,630 | — | $6.8M |
| 2020 | $2.9M | $2.6M | $2.3M | $44K | — | — |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $216K from 97 charities:
- Edwards Charitable Foundation$30K
- Canadahelps Canadon$30K
- Canadahelps Canadon$30K
- Walker Wood Foundation$20K
- Cidel Foundation$17K
- Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de Niagara$8,336
- Trotter Family Foundation$7,500
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$6,787
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$5,392
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$4,750
- Kiwanis Club of Oshawa Education Foundation$3,000
- The Crinoline Foundation$2,863
- Byron United Church$2,500
- Bealight Foundation$2,500
- Charity Intelligence Canada$2,000
- Kiwanis Club of Middlesex Bequest and Endowment Fund$2,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,601
- Anglican Synod of the Diocese of British Columbia$1,485
- The Kiwanis Club of Riverdale Charitable Foundation$1,350
- The Hensen Foundation$1,300
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$1,200
- Knox Presbyterian Church$1,125
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,100
- The Synod of the Diocese of Niagara$1,085
- Port Perry Pastoral Charge$1,070
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions1
- Total compensation, all staff$51K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Debra Will-Dryden (chair); Theresa Carravetta; Eleanor Uddo; Maurice Kowanetz (vice chair); Jim Miller; Peggy Morrison; Elizabeth Poad; John Scali (treasurer); Edward Swanston.
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Sleeping Children Around the World’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 131634396RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.