Speak Banana
Publicly funded institution · Oakville, Ontario · BN 778591479RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,410) as filed with the CRA.
Speak Banana is a charitable organization based in Oakville, 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 $3,400 in revenue and $3,410 in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 65% from donations, 35% from other charities. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $1,200.
Compared with 673 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 14% of peers.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $746 in 2020 to $3,400 in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 2 names.
In its own words
Volunteers contribute to Speak Banana's website design development testing and implementation. Additional volunteer hourscontribute to website maintenance patch updates and additional website enhancement. Supporting activities include generatingcontent for the blog and learning resources which contains useful information for improving language communication andgeneral language improvement consultations.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3,400 | $3,410 | $1,798 | — | — | $60 |
| 2023 | $2,608 | $2,698 | $1,360 | — | — | $70 |
| 2022 | $2,510 | $2,350 | $1,058 | — | — | $160 |
| 2021 | $1,803 | $1,803 | $906 | — | $0 | $100 |
| 2020 | $746 | $746 | $125 | — | $0 | $200 |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $1,200 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Qiutong Li (president); Ali Toyserkani (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Speak Banana’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 778591479RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.