Toronto Farsi School
Publicly funded institution · North York, Ontario · BN 870749777RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($128,514) as filed with the CRA.
Toronto Farsi School is a charitable organization based in North York, Ontario, classified by the CRA under teaching institutions. 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 August 31, 2024, it reported $126K in revenue and $129K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 63% from donations.
Compared with 1,540 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 80% of peers.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
To establish maintain and operate a public school. To provide education primarily but not limited to iranian canadian children in farsi language math computer science art iranian culture and other academic subjects. To provide incidental recreation programs thereto
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $126K | $129K | $124K | — | — | -$55K |
| 2023 | $91K | $152K | $148K | — | — | -$52K |
| 2022 | $127K | $134K | $129K | — | — | $8,441 |
| 2021 | $223K | $175K | $152K | — | — | $16K |
| 2020 | $176K | $204K | $174K | — | — | -$32K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
What it pays
- Total compensation, all staff$35K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Sheila Bahmani (secretary); Azarakhsh Golshani (director); Gholam Hossein Karimi (director); Mastaneh Rezaei (president); Fereshteh Sattari (director); Narges Behjat (director); Abdoulmahmoud Zarrabi (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Toronto Farsi School’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 870749777RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.