Thrive Child Development Centre
Publicly funded institution · Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario · BN 107916033RR0001 · Supportive Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($12,088,148) as filed with the CRA.
Thrive Child Development Centre is a charitable organization based in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, classified by the CRA under supportive health care. 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 $12.4M in revenue and $12.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 78% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $136K.
Compared with 538 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 88% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $120,000–159,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 96 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $5.7M in 2020 to $12.4M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Thrive Child Development Centre (Thrive) is engaged in the operation of a Children's Treatment Centre for children and youth aged 0 to 18 with physical developmental and communicative challenges in the City of Sault Ste. Marie and the entire District of Algoma. The programs/services provided include Social Work Physiotherapy Occupational Therapy Speech-Language Pathology both as Community-based and School-Based Rehabilitation Services; the Infant Child Development Program and the Preschool Speech and Language Program. Thrive coordinates all children's Respite Services for Algoma District …
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $12.4M | $12.1M | $11.8M | — | $0 | $2.5M |
| 2023 | $11.4M | $10.9M | $10.4M | — | — | $2.2M |
| 2022 | $8.9M | $8.4M | — | — | — | $1.8M |
| 2021 | $7.1M | $7.1M | — | — | — | $1.2M |
| 2020 | $5.7M | $5.7M | $5M | — | — | $170K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $136K from 2 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9992 positions
- $80,000–119,9998 positions
- Permanent full-time positions96
- Total compensation, all staff$9.3M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Diane Marshall (secretary); Cait Tomlinson (director); Kara Paat (director); Sydney Parlour (vice-president); Isaiah Bressan (treasurer); Jessica Calic (director); Matthew Paquette (director); Kathleen Osesky (director); Angela Verzosa (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Thrive Child Development Centre’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 107916033RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.