South Etobicoke Community Legal Services
Publicly funded institution · Etobicoke, Ontario · BN 119157568RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($768,149) as filed with the CRA.
South Etobicoke Community Legal Services is a charitable organization based in Etobicoke, Ontario, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. 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 $795K in revenue and $768K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 100% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2022, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $100.
Compared with 1,147 community-service institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 34% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 7 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
South etobicoke community legal services protects the legal welfare of low income community members. To that end we provide free legal advice and representation to low income residents of south etobicoke in immigration employment landlord and tenant and income maintenance law; we also provide community education and outreach promote law reform that will benefit the community we serve. Finally we work with community groups and agencies that share our commitment to social justice.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $795K | $768K | $615K | — | — | $47K |
| 2023 | $737K | $767K | $614K | — | — | $20K |
| 2022 | $735K | $739K | $591K | — | — | $50K |
| 2021 | $748K | $701K | $563K | — | — | $54K |
| 2020 | $720K | $721K | $581K | — | — | $7,046 |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2022
Received $100 from 1 charity:
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
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions7
- Total compensation, all staff$562K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Isabelle Khan (director); Toni Panzuto (director); Laura Faiczak (secretary and treasurer); Manas Mishra (chair); Jessica Kowalski (vice chair); Deka Abdilleh (director); Catherine Sadovyi (director); Ahmed Abdi (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from South Etobicoke Community Legal Services’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119157568RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.