True North Aid
Charitable organization · Kitchener, Ontario · BN 813183696RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,711,390) as filed with the CRA.
True North Aid is a charitable organization based in Kitchener, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $2.5M in revenue and $2.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 98% from donations. In 2024, 31 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $860K.
Compared with 1,125 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 83% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (4 positions in that band). The charity reported 5 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $926K in 2020 to $2.5M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
Sent tens of thousands of pounds of food health and menstrual supplies infant necessities backpacks and school supplies sport equipment bicycles winter clothes blankets and houshold items appliances holiday gift packages and furniture to more than 30 nothern communities throughout canada. These basic humanitarian supplies supported individuals families food banks hospitals and community kitchens in the north. Supported reconciliation efforts through programs that promote meaningful cross cultural exchanges respect for diversity and inclusion and national awareness about the ongo…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.5M | $2.7M | $2.3M | — | $297K | $819K |
| 2023 | $2.1M | $2.1M | $1.9M | — | $88K | $1M |
| 2022 | $1.6M | $2.4M | $2.2M | — | $29K | $938K |
| 2021 | $3M | $1.6M | $1.4M | — | $95K | $1.8M |
| 2020 | $926K | $531K | $452K | — | $48K | $441K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $860K from 31 charities:
- Shoppers Foundation for Women's Health$250K
- Movember Canada$174K
- Canadahelps Canadon$102K
- Canadahelps Canadon$102K
- Turkstra Foundation$100K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$25K
- Cidel Foundation$17K
- RBC Foundation$15K
- BenefAction Foundation$13K
- Aqueduct Foundation$12K
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$10K
- Value Partners Charitable Foundation Inc.$10K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$5,157
- The Peter Gilgan Foundation$5,000
- Toronto District School Board$4,949
- Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal$4,700
- The KPMG Foundation/la Fondation KPMG$2,500
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$1,600
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$1,362
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,115
- The Anglican Parish of Leeds Rear$1,000
- United Way of Greater Toronto$557
- Meadowridge School Society$523
- United Way of Kingston Frontenac Lennox & Addington$521
- The Ottewell Family Charitable Foundation$500
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions5
- Total compensation, all staff$316K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Scott Harris (chairman); Bob Langlois (vice president); Kim Sigurdson (director); Steve Kataqupit (director); Irving Leblanc (director); Jennifer Wood (director); Rana Brar Thiara (director); Linnea Kalchos (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from True North Aid’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 813183696RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.