Toronto Fire Fighters Charities Inc.
Public foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 788339919RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-10-31. Split of total expenditures ($737,161) as filed with the CRA.
Toronto Fire Fighters Charities Inc. is a public foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending October 31, 2024, it reported $649K in revenue and $737K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 24% from donations, 6% from other charities. In 2024, 9 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $93K.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 60% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 7 qualified donees totalling $138K in 2024, the largest being $40K to United Way of Greater Toronto. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $187K in 2020 to $649K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
Purpose is to operate exclusively as a charitable organization to receive and maintain funds and apply from time to time the income earned solely for charitable purposes as deemed appropriate by the articles of incoropration including; relieve poverty & humans suffering & distress by providing basic amenities and other means to relieve poverty to poor individuals whose lives livelihood security or well-being are at risk; to provide the necessities of life to victims of disasters; to assist fire fighters wherever situated but particularly in socially and economically disadvantaged comm…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $649K | $737K | $540K | $48K | $138K | $851K |
| 2023 | $868K | $720K | $590K | — | $121K | $939K |
| 2022 | $865K | $310K | $250K | $9,175 | $51K | $792K |
| 2021 | $171K | $59K | $49K | — | — | $240K |
| 2020 | $187K | $120K | $113K | — | — | $128K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $138K to 7 qualified donees:
Received $93K from 9 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Frank Ramagnano (president); James Reed (treasurer); Kevin McCarthy (vice president); Christopher Sornberger (director); Victoria Goulart (director); Geoff Berenz (director); Jim Lee (director); Michael Smith (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Toronto Fire Fighters Charities Inc.’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 788339919RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.