The Neighbourhood Group Community Services
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 106887284RR0002 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($77,278,556) as filed with the CRA.
The Neighbourhood Group Community Services is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. 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 $75.5M in revenue and $77.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 80% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 43 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $4.6M.
Compared with 427 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 91% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 588 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $22.8M in 2020 to $75.5M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 16 names.
In its own words
The organization provides spaces services and opportunities that engage all community members in enhancing their quality of life and in building healthy inclusive neighbourhoods. The organization has programs for children and youth new canadians families women and seniors.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $75.5M | $77.3M | $76.1M | $147K | — | $7.9M |
| 2023 | $67.3M | $68M | $66.4M | $12K | — | $10.1M |
| 2022 | $62.6M | $61.9M | $47M | $421K | — | $10.8M |
| 2021 | $50M | $49.3M | $47M | $157K | — | $10.1M |
| 2020 | $22.8M | $22.8M | $22.4M | $59K | — | $1.7M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $4.6M from 43 charities:
- The Neighbourhood Group Foundation$2.3M
- United Way of Greater Toronto$1.3M
- Daily Bread Food Bank$348K
- Community Foundations of Canada$63K
- Emerald Foundation$60K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$53K
- Canadian National Christian Foundation$50K
- Toronto Foundation$38K
- La Fondation Emmanuelle Gattuso$35K
- United Way of Greater Toronto$29K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$26K
- Canadian Women's Foundation$25K
- The Auxilium Foundation$25K
- Fondation Écho /echo Foundation$25K
- Canadahelps Canadon$25K
- Canadahelps Canadon$25K
- Canadian Women's Foundation$24K
- Canadian Women's Foundation$16K
- Ontario Association of Youth Employment Centres$16K
- Canadian Women's Foundation$15K
- The Peter Gilgan Foundation$15K
- The McLean Foundation$13K
- Right To Food$10K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$10K
- RBC Foundation$10K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9998 positions
- Permanent full-time positions588
- Total compensation, all staff$57.3M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Sonia Yung (chair); Jennifer Hartviksen (vice chair); Varinder Bhathal (treasurer); Shannon McCauley (secretary); Joshua Kleiman (director); Craig Knowles (director); Shannon Stanojevic (director); Rebecca Stulberg (director); Levi Cooperman (director); Shadi Farshadfar (director); Kevin Fisher (director); Rono Khan (director); Nero Persaud (director); Alena Ravestein (director); Chana Weinstein (director); Gregory Wilson (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Neighbourhood Group Community Services’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 106887284RR0002), or read how we compute the receipt.