The Toronto United Church Council
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 108123274RR0001 · Support of Religion · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($6,824,859) as filed with the CRA.
The Toronto United Church Council is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under support of religion. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $7.2M in revenue and $6.8M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 6% from donations. In 2024, 11 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $83K.
Compared with 2,238 religious charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 35% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 95% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 13 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 34 qualified donees totalling $596K in 2024, the largest being $225K to Camp Ahshunyoong Corporation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.8M in 2020 to $7.2M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
To assist the united church of canada in southern ontario including but not limited to: - congregational development and church redevelopment through consultancy leadership training planning research and site acquisition. - providing sites and facilities for camping programs (lake scugog camp camp big canoe camp simpresca and sparrow lake camp) inner city outreach in toronto and congregational life across its service area -camping opportunities for children living in poverty or dysfunctional family situations through the camping opportunity fund (lake scugog camp has 100% subsidized cam…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $7.2M | $6.8M | $2.3M | $167K | $3.4M | $51.1M |
| 2023 | $9.8M | $3.4M | $1.9M | $135K | $424K | $48.8M |
| 2022 | -$75K | $2.4M | $1.5M | $146K | $523K | $42.3M |
| 2021 | $3.6M | $2.8M | $1.5M | $206K | $629K | $44.8M |
| 2020 | $1.8M | $2.5M | $1.2M | $209K | $526K | $43.9M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $596K to 34 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Camp Ahshunyoong Corporation$225K
- Lake Scugog United Church Camp Inc.$64K
- Sparrow Lake United Church Camp Inc.$49K
- Tamil United Church$45K
- Ryde Lake Camp$22K
- Simcoe Presbytery Camp$20K
- Fred Victor Centre$17K
- Glebe Road United Church$16K
- Youth Emergency Shelter of Peterborough Incorporated$16K
- YWCA Peterborough Haliburton$16K
- Wasaga Beach United Church Mission$16K
- The United Church of Canada$12K
- Bloor Street United Church$12K
- Brooksong Retreat and Cancer Support Centre$12K
- Abbey Gardens Community Trust$12K
- All Our Relations Land Trust$10K
- The University of Guelph Ecumenical Campus Ministry$6,900
- Abiona Centre for Infant & Early Mental Health$5,259
- Birchcliff Bluffs United Church$5,000
- Friends of Honduran Children$3,972
- Peterborough Child and Family Centres$3,972
- Ebenezer United Church$2,375
- Saint Luke's United Church$2,000
- Grace United Church$1,800
- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Foundation$516
Received $83K from 11 charities:
- Kingsway Lambton United Church$35K
- The Presbyteries of Toronto Conference Corporation$24K
- Canadahelps Canadon$10K
- Seguin Pioneer United Church$5,954
- East Central Ontario Regional Council - the United Church Ofcanada$5,567
- Toronto Foundation$1,069
- Grace United Church$500
- Willowdale Emmanuel United Church$170
- Fairbank United Church$100
- Martin Grove United Church$100
- Parkwoods United Church—
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
- $80,000–119,9995 positions
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions13
- Total compensation, all staff$1.3M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Ronald Ewart (like official); Harry Ort (director); Kate Young (director); Douglas Mills (director); Edwin Meyers (director); Carole Bennett (director); Roberta Howey (director); Elizabeth Cunningham (director); David Shearman (director); Doug Smith (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Toronto United Church Council’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 108123274RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.