The Tropicana Community Services Organization
Publicly funded institution · Scarborough, Ontario · BN 119259885RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($16,731,632) as filed with the CRA.
The Tropicana Community Services Organization is a charitable organization based in Scarborough, 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 $16M in revenue and $16.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 90% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 11 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $690K.
Compared with 427 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 2% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $120,000–159,999 range (4 positions in that band). The charity reported 75 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $8.7M in 2020 to $16M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
Counseling; development education; employment services; special projects; tutoring; summer camp; youth job connection - summer; day care services; youth education; youth job connections; retail networks; pre-apprenticeship; career navigator - retail; success through aggression replacement training supporting black canadian communities initiative.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $16M | $16.7M | — | — | $4.8M | $1.1M |
| 2023 | $17.7M | $18M | — | — | — | $1.8M |
| 2022 | $14.7M | $14.9M | — | — | — | $2.1M |
| 2021 | $10.7M | $9.4M | — | — | — | $2.4M |
| 2020 | $8.7M | $8.6M | — | — | — | $1.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $690K from 11 charities:
- United Way of Greater Toronto$543K
- Community Foundations of Canada$30K
- Canadahelps Canadon$27K
- Canadahelps Canadon$27K
- Daily Bread Food Bank$22K
- Toronto Foundation$18K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$15K
- United Way of Greater Toronto$6,615
- The Lakeside Church Ministries$2,065
- Young People's Theatre$250
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$14
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9994 positions
- $80,000–119,9996 positions
- Permanent full-time positions75
- Total compensation, all staff$6.4M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Star Lewis (director); Maurice Lewis (board treasurer); Colleen Vandeyck (secretary); Paul Bailey (director); Jacquie Ferguson (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Tropicana Community Services Organization’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119259885RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.