The Cedarbrook Society
Charitable organization · Milton, Ontario · BN 888524840RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,982,903) as filed with the CRA.
The Cedarbrook Society is a charitable organization based in Milton, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $4.3M in revenue and $3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 32% from donations, 39% from government, 12% from other charities. In 2024, 41 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $829K.
Compared with 1,125 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 17% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 77% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $120,000–159,999 range (3 positions in that band). The charity reported 23 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
The Cedarbrook Society operates The Darling Home for Kids providing respite hospice palliative and residential care to children with medical complexities and their families. The Home serves children ages infancy to 19 years. The charity also offers a number of therapeutic programs including recreation therapy multi-sensory therapy as well as family support programs.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.3M | $3M | $2.1M | $587K | — | $7.4M |
| 2023 | $3.4M | $2.9M | $2.2M | $513K | — | $6.7M |
| 2022 | $5.3M | $2.5M | $1.9M | $469K | — | $6.6M |
| 2021 | $5.6M | $2.3M | $1.6M | $420K | — | $6.9M |
| 2020 | $3M | $2.4M | $1.8M | $380K | — | $6.8M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $829K from 41 charities:
- Hewitt Foundation$200K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$130K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$77K
- BenefAction Foundation$56K
- Mackenzie Investments Charitable Foundation$36K
- Aubrey & Marla Dan Foundation$25K
- Shah Family Foundation$25K
- Williams Wilson Sherport Foundation$24K
- Fellowship of Man Charitable Foundation$20K
- The Gear Foundation$18K
- The James and Patricia Bullock Family Foundation$15K
- The Harry E Foster Charitable Foundation$15K
- The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation$15K
- Canadahelps Canadon$13K
- Oakville Community Foundation$13K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$11K
- Gordon & Ruth Gooder Charitable Foundation$10K
- Saburah Foundation$10K
- The Henslow-Brown Foundation$10K
- The Guelph Community Foundation$10K
- Sofina Foundation$10K
- Bourassa Savaria Foundation$10K
- Foundation for Human Development$9,000
- Walker Wood Foundation$8,350
- RCO Charitable Fund$8,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9993 positions
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9996 positions
- Permanent full-time positions23
- Total compensation, all staff$2.1M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Michele Darling (director); Michelle Scott (past chairperson); Kathryn Hayward-Murray (vice chairperson); Thomas Cadman (chairperson); Alykhan Jadavji (director); Priya Ferris (treasurer); Jennifer Aubertin (director); Tara Redmond (director); Jordan Elmore (director); Veronica Kenny (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Cedarbrook Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 888524840RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.