Smart Serve Ontario
Charitable organization · Mississauga, Ontario · BN 897312674RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-09-30. Split of total expenditures ($7,203,396) as filed with the CRA.
Smart Serve Ontario is a charitable organization based in Mississauga, Ontario, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. In its fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, it reported $11.2M in revenue and $7.2M in expenditures.
Compared with 34 community-service charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 12% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 9 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 20 qualified donees totalling $238K in 2024, the largest being $74K to The Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $4.6M in 2020 to $11.2M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Smart serve ontario promotes a safeer and healthier ontario through two alcohol and gaming commission of ontario ('agco') approved courses in responsible liquor service: a comprehensive course and a retail-focused course ensuring responsible alcohol sales service handling and delivery. Since 1995 our mandate is to support the industry in their endeavours to ensure responsible alcohol service is aligned with public safety for the good of our communities. We continue in our efforts to ensure the message of responsible alcohol consumption is understood by the broader public including unive…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $11.2M | $7.2M | $5.1M | — | $238K | $23.9M |
| 2023 | $12.4M | $8M | $4.3M | — | $2.1M | $20M |
| 2022 | $6.3M | $3.8M | $2.4M | — | $88K | $15.6M |
| 2021 | $3.3M | $2.6M | $1.3M | — | $114K | $13.1M |
| 2020 | $4.6M | $3.5M | $2.1M | — | — | $12.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $238K to 20 qualified donees:
- The Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning$74K
- The Confederation College of Applied Arts & Technology$33K
- The Algonquin College of Applied Arts and Technology$31K
- Toronto Metropolitan University$19K
- The Canadore College Foundation$8,000
- The Lambton College Foundation$8,000
- College d'Arts Appliques et de Technologie la Cite Collegiale$8,000
- University of Guelph$8,000
- The Conestoga College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning$4,000
- The George Brown College Foundation$4,000
- The Georgian College of Applied Arts and Technology$4,000
- The Centennial College of Applied Arts and Technology$4,000
- The Durham College Foundation$4,000
- ST. Lawrence College of Applied Arts & Technology$4,000
- Fanshawe College Foundation$4,000
- Niagara College of Applied Arts and Technology$4,000
- The Sir Sandford Fleming College of Applied Arts and Technology$4,000
- ST Clair College Foundation$4,000
- Loyalist College of Applied Arts and Technology$4,000
- Seneca College of Applied Arts & Technology$4,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- $40,000–79,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions9
- Total compensation, all staff$1M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Gyan Chandra (chair); Fred Luk (vice chair); David Thompson (director); Jody Palubiski (treasurer); Maria Allan (director); Carolyn Marcotte (director); Dean Sockett (secretary); Len Little (director); Roberta Sawchyn (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Smart Serve Ontario’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 897312674RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.