Thistleoaks Child Care Centre
Publicly funded institution · Burlington, Ontario · BN 132389321RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,599,807) as filed with the CRA.
Thistleoaks Child Care Centre is a charitable organization based in Burlington, Ontario, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. 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 December 31, 2024, it reported $1.6M in revenue and $1.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 72% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2022, 3 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $3,997.
Compared with 829 community-service institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 60% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 19 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Care and Education of preschool and kindergarten children .
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.6M | $1.6M | $1.5M | — | — | $107K |
| 2023 | $1.5M | $1.6M | — | — | — | $147K |
| 2022 | $1.3M | — | — | — | — | $289K |
| 2021 | $1.1M | — | — | — | — | $595K |
| 2020 | $1.8M | $1.8M | $1.7M | — | — | $554K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2022
Received $3,997 from 3 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
- $40,000–79,9999 positions
- Permanent full-time positions19
- Total compensation, all staff$1.1M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jennifer McEwan (managing director); Tim Valters (president); Lillian Qian (vice president); Andrea Milosevic (marketing and communication); Cindy Khimji (human resources); Puneeta Kaur (board recruit and development); Karen Campbell (executive director); Sofie Velasco Alonso (secretary); Rajiv Luthra (director finance).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Thistleoaks Child Care Centre’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 132389321RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.