The Kiwanis Club of Toronto Foundation
Public foundation · North York, Ontario · BN 105223051RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-09-30. Split of total expenditures ($711,818) as filed with the CRA.
The Kiwanis Club of Toronto Foundation is a public foundation based in North York, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, it reported $603K in revenue and $712K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 8% from donations, 40% from other charities. In 2024, 3 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $254K.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 47% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 18 qualified donees totalling $559K in 2024, the largest being $349K to BGC Toronto Kiwanis. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
The Foundation receives maintains and grants funds for programs and activities of charitable organizations that help children and youth while enhancing and serving the community such as the BGC Toronto Kiwanis (formerly Toronto Kiwanis Boys & Girls Clubs).
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $603K | $712K | — | — | $612K | $8.5M |
| 2023 | $749K | $921K | $19K | — | $821K | $7.5M |
| 2022 | $866K | $921K | $8,425 | — | $820K | $7.5M |
| 2021 | $1.5M | $1.1M | $14K | — | $983K | $9.1M |
| 2020 | $502K | $701K | $613K | — | — | $7.9M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $559K to 18 qualified donees:
- BGC Toronto Kiwanis$349K
- Sistema Toronto Academy$50K
- Urbanpromise Toronto$10K
- The Hopeworks Connection Inc.$10K
- The Children's Book Bank$10K
- Stepstones for Youth$10K
- Sketch Working Arts for Street Involved and Homeless Youth$10K
- Scarborough Centre for Healthy Communities$10K
- Rainbow Songs Foundation$10K
- Moorelands Community Services$10K
- Mentoring Juniors Kids Organization (MJKO)$10K
- Jamii Esplanade$10K
- I Challenge Diabetes$10K
- Eva's Initiatives for Homeless Youth$10K
- East Toronto Family Community Centre$10K
- Creative and Natural Outdoor Experience Inc$10K
- Clay and Paper Theatre$10K
- Inner City Outreach$9,980
Received $254K from 3 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Andrea Simpson (president); Elizabeth Bozek (director); Daniel Tessaro (director); Deborah Knight (treasurer); Alena Sviderskaia (director); O’neil Edwards (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Kiwanis Club of Toronto Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 105223051RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.