The Learning Place
Publicly funded institution · Brampton, Ontario · BN 107830689RR0001 · Support of Schools and Education · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($979,057) as filed with the CRA.
The Learning Place is a charitable organization based in Brampton, Ontario, classified by the CRA under support of schools and education. 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 $968K in revenue and $979K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 76% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1,006.
Compared with 1,540 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 29% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 84% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 10 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
The learning place is a not-for-profit organization providing literacy education and key life-skills training to english-speaking adults in peel region (mississuaga brampton and caledon). The organization is committed to helping non-readers with literacy education as well as the peel community at large with improving key life skills such as applying for a job maintaining personal banking or using the internet. The learning place is also a community hub to request design and run fee-paid courses on demand. The organization partners with business and organizations alike to deliver courses…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $968K | $979K | $748K | $27K | — | $175K |
| 2023 | $923K | $881K | $682K | $2,015 | — | $186K |
| 2022 | $706K | $743K | $584K | $260 | — | $1.6M |
| 2021 | $742K | $635K | $484K | $3,600 | — | $182K |
| 2020 | $649K | $644K | $474K | $14K | — | $74K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $1,006 from 2 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- $1–39,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions10
- Total compensation, all staff$737K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Rob Morrone (director); Badjko Rob (vice chair); Carlos Perlas (treasurer); Arshia Mukherjee (secretary); Kirk Serjeantson (chair); Saleha Khan (director); Jean Claude Demerchi (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Learning Place’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 107830689RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.