Toronto Cat Rescue
Charitable organization · Etobicoke, Ontario · BN 720884691RR0001 · Animal Welfare · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-09-30. Split of total expenditures ($1,808,924) as filed with the CRA.
Toronto Cat Rescue is a charitable organization based in Etobicoke, Ontario, classified by the CRA under animal welfare. In its fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, it reported $1.9M in revenue and $1.8M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 62% from donations. In 2024, 21 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $2.2M.
Compared with 112 animal-welfare charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 31% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 4 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
Toronto cat rescue (tcr) is a no-kill all volunteer group working with the public to promote individual responsibility for animal welfare. It's objectives are stated in its constitution are: 1) to recue cats at risk from shelters and the conmmunity to spay/neuter vaccinate foster and adopt to good homes; 2) to rescue feral cats spay/neuter vaccinate foster and adopt to good homes; and 3) to educate to the public regarding the correct care of animals and the importance of sterlizing the animals in their care.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.9M | $1.8M | $1.5M | $91K | — | $993K |
| 2023 | $1.7M | $1.6M | $1.5M | $440 | — | $893K |
| 2022 | $1.6M | $1.2M | $1.1M | $350 | — | $822K |
| 2021 | $1.3M | $1.3M | $1.1M | $25K | — | $477K |
| 2020 | $1.4M | $1.1M | $948K | $26K | — | $488K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $2.2M from 21 charities:
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$853K
- Canadahelps Canadon$509K
- Canadahelps Canadon$509K
- Petsmart Charities of Canada$113K
- Alex Gurn Cat Welfare Foundation$82K
- The Eric S. Margolis Family Foundation$53K
- Fondation Philantra Philantra Foundation$10K
- The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation$10K
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$3,596
- Aqueduct Foundation$3,000
- JBS Foundation Inc.$3,000
- Doane Grant Thornton Foundation$3,000
- Community Cats Toronto$1,300
- Canada Gives$1,000
- United Way of Greater Toronto$770
- R&M Lang Foundation$750
- WCPD Foundation$500
- GivingForce Foundation Canada$400
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$255
- Toronto District School Board$123
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$122
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
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions4
- Total compensation, all staff$363K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Natasha Kay Brenders (chair); Sonia Sheechoria (vice chair); Anthony Schoeppich (treasurer); Arlene Thomas (secretary); Kyra Augustyn (director); Suzanne Patterson (director); Kevin Wilson (director); Nalini Ramroop (executive director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Toronto Cat Rescue’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 720884691RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.