Telling Tales
Charitable organization · Waterdown, Ontario · BN 725260897RR0001 · Support of Schools and Education · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($590,335) as filed with the CRA.
Telling Tales is a charitable organization based in Waterdown, Ontario, classified by the CRA under support of schools and education. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $592K in revenue and $590K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 36% from government, 49% from other charities. In 2024, 13 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $252K.
Compared with 1,764 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 20% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 92% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (4 positions in that band). The charity reported 4 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $10K in 2024, the largest being $10K to Telling Tales. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $343K in 2020 to $592K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
Deliver literary programming for children and youth that raises awareness of the importance of literacy in the hamilton halton and surrounding area.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $592K | $590K | $351K | $83K | $10K | $142K |
| 2023 | $420K | $435K | $270K | $88K | $20K | $141K |
| 2022 | $456K | $444K | $276K | $96K | — | $126K |
| 2021 | $395K | $367K | $230K | $68K | — | $114K |
| 2020 | $343K | $336K | $225K | $41K | — | $86K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $10K to 1 qualified donee:
- Telling Tales$10K
Received $252K from 13 charities:
- Turkstra Foundation$100K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$44K
- Hamilton Community Foundation$43K
- The Leacross Foundation/La Fondation Leacross$30K
- Burlington Community Foundation$10K
- Telling Tales$10K
- The Charitable Corporation of The Rotary Club of Hamilton AM$3,500
- Canada Gives$3,000
- Doane Grant Thornton Foundation$3,000
- The Rotary Club of Burlington-Lakeshore Trust Fund$2,000
- Columbia International Scholarship Endowment Fund$2,000
- Rotary Club of Dundas Charitable Trust$1,000
- Canadahelps Canadon$256
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions4
- Total compensation, all staff$237K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jane Allison (director); Suzon Cochrane (secretary); June Dickenson (director); Derek Fleming (treasurer); Hortense Fraser (director); Heather Kanabe (executive director); Laura Lukasik (chair); Tarah Middleton (director); Lori Moulden (director); Lyndsay Lew (director); Sambul Syed (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Telling Tales’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 725260897RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.