The Elizabeth Fry Society Toronto Branch
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 119231306RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,432,208) as filed with the CRA.
The Elizabeth Fry Society Toronto Branch is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. 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 March 31, 2024, it reported $2.5M in revenue and $3.4M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 96% from government, 19% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 15 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $590K.
Compared with 829 community-service institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 6% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 82% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 28 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
Transitional residence for women paroled from federal & provincial prisons satellite apartments to accommodate sentenced women with children -Individual and group counselling life skills practical assistance & resources to women in the residence. -Outreach counselling & community reintegration support. -Counselling programs including substance use parenting partner assault response healing from abuse shoplifting fraud -Direct accountability program for individuals with first time non violent minor crimes operating out of college park courthouse -Counselling and release planning for wo…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.5M | $3.4M | $2.1M | $51K | $0 | $543K |
| 2023 | $3.1M | $3.7M | $3M | $1,090 | — | $1.4M |
| 2022 | $3.6M | $3.7M | $3.3M | $1,572 | — | $2M |
| 2021 | $3.5M | $3.5M | $3.2M | $6,836 | — | $2.2M |
| 2020 | $3.3M | $3.3M | $2.9M | $6,371 | — | $2.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $590K from 15 charities:
- United Way of Greater Toronto$461K
- Canadahelps Canadon$43K
- Canadahelps Canadon$43K
- T.R. Meighen Family Foundation/Fondation de la Famille T.R. Meighen$15K
- Edwards Charitable Foundation$10K
- McLean Smits Family Foundation$5,000
- CHUM Charitable Foundation$2,600
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$2,356
- Grace Church-ON-The-Hill$2,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,800
- The Arthur H. and Margaret E. Baker Foundation$1,000
- Gandy Charitable Foundation$1,000
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$500
- United Way of Greater Toronto$200
- The Diaper Bank of Toronto—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,99925 positions
- Permanent full-time positions28
- Total compensation, all staff$2.3M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Kelly Potvin (executive director); Shabnum Durrani (president); Lauriana Mandody (vice president); Anna-Kay Bailey (director); Tanisha Evans (director); Aileen Thompson (secretary); Cara-Marie O'Hagan (treasurer); Lauren Winkler (director); Bhavan Sodhi (director); Kamilah Haywood (director); Frishta Bastan (director); Tiina Eldridge (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Elizabeth Fry Society Toronto Branch’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119231306RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.