The Reading Partnership
Charitable organization · Scarborough, Ontario · BN 727408932RR0001 · Support of Schools and Education · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,091,286) as filed with the CRA.
The Reading Partnership is a charitable organization based in Scarborough, Ontario, classified by the CRA under support of schools and education. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $1.4M in revenue and $1.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 15% from donations, 23% from government, 33% from other charities. In 2024, 21 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $454K.
Compared with 632 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 68% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 8 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $568K in 2022 to $1.4M in 2024.
In its own words
The reading partnership's mission is to create and deliver literacy-focused programs that empower children in their early years to become successful at all stages of life. Program offerings prioritize black indigenous and racialized families in high-potential low-income communities experiencing barriers to learning. Core programs include: reading partnership for parents 360 stories and kids readto. Kids readto connects children in the program across the gta.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2022–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.4M | $1.1M | $1M | — | — | $639K |
| 2023 | $1M | $832K | $734K | — | — | $344K |
| 2022 | $568K | $453K | $445K | — | — | $163K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $454K from 21 charities:
- United Way of Greater Toronto$76K
- The Ralph M. Barford Foundation$60K
- Acorn Seed Foundation$50K
- The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation$40K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$32K
- The Chawkers foundation$30K
- Toronto Foundation$30K
- Balsam Foundation$30K
- Indigo Love of Reading Foundation$28K
- TELUS Friendly Future Foundation$20K
- The Helix Foundation for Children and Youth$20K
- Canadahelps Canadon$11K
- Black Opportunity Fund$10K
- Traquair Family Foundation$10K
- BenefAction Foundation$6,000
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$622
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$500
- Makeway Foundation$500
- Troop Impact Foundation—
- Troop Impact Foundation—
- Troop Impact Foundation—
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
- $40,000–79,9995 positions
- $1–39,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions8
- Total compensation, all staff$409K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Reading Partnership’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 727408932RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.