Start2Finish Canada
Charitable organization · Mississauga, Ontario · BN 802700542RR0001 · Support of Schools and Education · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,607,000) as filed with the CRA.
Start2Finish Canada is a charitable organization based in Mississauga, Ontario, classified by the CRA under support of schools and education. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $1.6M in revenue and $1.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 53% from donations, 7% from government, 38% from other charities. In 2024, 27 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $429K.
Compared with 632 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 58% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 80% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 8 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
Running & reading clubs - after-school program that encourages physical mental social emotional and academic outcomes in low-income/equity-deserving communities across canada. Backpack program - partners with local schools and school boards to distribute backpacks filled with up to 6 month's worth of supplies to low-income children nationawide. Junior coach leadership development program - opportunities for youth in middle school to receive mentoring mentor younger children and learn leadership skills that will equip them to stay in school graduate and succeed. Summer adventure prog…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.6M | $1.6M | $1.4M | $31K | — | $714K |
| 2023 | $1.5M | $1.5M | $1.3M | $23K | — | $717K |
| 2022 | $1.1M | $1.1M | $881K | $53K | — | $735K |
| 2021 | $1.2M | $935K | $818K | $23K | — | $675K |
| 2020 | $1.5M | $1.4M | $1.2M | $58K | — | $393K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $429K from 27 charities:
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$162K
- Hamilton Community Foundation$25K
- Future Generations Foundation$25K
- Calgary Flames Foundation$25K
- The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation$20K
- Community Foundation for Kingston & Area$20K
- The Winnipeg Foundation$18K
- The Windsor Foundation$18K
- Canadahelps Canadon$16K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$15K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$14K
- TELUS Friendly Future Foundation$10K
- Johansen-Larsen Foundation$10K
- Shaw Family Foundation$10K
- London Community Foundation$7,150
- CHUM Charitable Foundation$5,000
- The George Lunan Foundation$5,000
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$5,000
- Surreycares Community Foundation$5,000
- Oakville Community Foundation$3,819
- Mississauga Foundation$3,000
- Aqueduct Foundation$2,000
- Greenrock Charitable Trust$2,000
- BenefAction Foundation$1,400
- The Grenadier Foundation$1,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9995 positions
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions8
- Total compensation, all staff$655K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Brendan Howard (chair); Brent Serson (director); Benjamin Winograd (treasurer); Peter Lambert (director); Kelly Hyatt (director); Heela Omarkhail (director); Chris French (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Start2Finish Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 802700542RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.