Toronto Council Fire Native Cultural Centre
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 105255244RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2023-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($6,361,395) as filed with the CRA.
Toronto Council Fire Native Cultural Centre is a charitable organization based in Toronto, 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, 2023, it reported $6.8M in revenue and $6.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 98% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 18 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $523K.
Compared with 1,558 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 53% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 81% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (5 positions in that band). The charity reported 45 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
Prenatal family nurturing youth program (little embers/akwe:go/wasanabin) aboriginal healing and wellness life long care program (senior/frail) urban aboriginal healthy living cultural resource kizhaay anishinabe niin literacy program apatisiwin employment gathering place (drop-in) backpacks youth wellness educational and drop-in navigation unit meals on wheels (food service for shut-in) aboriginal emergency support residential schools program and mmiwgt2s.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2023
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | $6.8M | $6.4M | $5.7M | $97K | — | $4.8M |
| 2022 | $8.6M | $6.5M | $5.9M | $659K | — | $4.3M |
| 2021 | $6.1M | $5.5M | $5.2M | $1,878 | — | $2.3M |
| 2020 | $4.8M | $4.8M | $4M | $23K | — | $2.8M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $523K from 18 charities:
- Daily Bread Food Bank$253K
- The Atkinson Charitable Foundation$50K
- Donald Bainbridge Family Foundation$50K
- Canadahelps Canadon$50K
- Canadahelps Canadon$50K
- Kids Up Front Foundation (toronto)$22K
- Laidlaw Foundation$15K
- Toronto Foundation$12K
- CHUM Charitable Foundation$5,000
- Aqueduct Foundation$5,000
- Toronto District School Board$3,604
- The JTMH Family Foundation$2,500
- The JTMH Family Foundation$2,500
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$1,411
- Anne McGrath Memorial Foundation Inc.$1,000
- United Way of Greater Toronto$710
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$145
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$100
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9995 positions
- $40,000–79,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions45
- Total compensation, all staff$3.3M
Schedule 3 of its 2023 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2023)
Suzanne Shoush (president); Millie Knapp (vp/treasurer); Wanina Phipps-Walker (secretary); Michael Jeffrey (director); Andrew Wesley (board elder); Emilee Bennett (youth representative); Jayden Wemigwans (youth representative).
As listed on its 2023 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Toronto Council Fire Native Cultural Centre’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 105255244RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.