The Caritas Foundation
Public foundation · Vaughan, Ontario · BN 873024079RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($478,778) as filed with the CRA.
The Caritas Foundation is a public foundation based in Vaughan, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $625K in revenue and $479K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 48% from donations. In 2024, 8 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $16K.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 5% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $150K in 2024, the largest being $150K to Caritas School of Life. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 15 names.
In its own words
To promote the efficiency and effectiveness of the caritas school of life's charitable programs by providing and maintaining facilities for this purpose to receive and maintain a fund or funds and to apply all of part of the principal and to undertake activities ancillary and incidental to the above charitable purposes.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $625K | $479K | — | $81K | $150K | $1.4M |
| 2023 | $674K | $272K | — | $17K | — | $1.2M |
| 2022 | $294K | $358K | — | $122K | — | $807K |
| 2021 | $359K | $334K | — | $89K | — | $872K |
| 2020 | $445K | $317K | — | $99K | — | $847K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $150K to 1 qualified donee:
Received $16K from 8 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Anthony Dirienzo (treasurer); Khoa Ly-Kilis (secretary); Tony Pietrangelo (board of driectors); Brian Roman (chairman); Donato Ruggiero (board of directors); Walter Simone (president); Claudio Vinelli (director); Mario De Plama (director); Mario Catenaccio (director); Matt Thorne (director); Sandra Yeung Racco (director); Angela Ianetta (director); Victor Settino (director); Lawrence Liquornik (director); Sophia Plank (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Caritas Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 873024079RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.