Unity Charity
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 857359012RR0001 · Support of Schools and Education · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,644,673) as filed with the CRA.
Unity Charity is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under support of schools and education. In its fiscal year ending August 31, 2024, it reported $1.6M in revenue and $1.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 42% from government, 8% from other charities. In 2024, 9 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $356K.
Compared with 632 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 73% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (3 positions in that band). The charity reported 13 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
Unity Charity educates and engages young people by providing educational courses seminars workshops and assemblies in schools and community centres to promote artistic expression containing a message of non-violence and tolerance positive forms of self-expression and their impact on the community. Unity programs utilize art forms to educate and engage young people and the public of the negative impact of violence in our communities.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.6M | $1.6M | $1.5M | — | — | -$68K |
| 2023 | $1.4M | $1.7M | $1.5M | — | — | -$57K |
| 2022 | $1.3M | $1.6M | $1.6M | — | — | $192K |
| 2021 | $1.4M | $1.3M | $908K | $50K | — | $495K |
| 2020 | $1.3M | $1.2M | $917K | $168K | — | $477K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $356K from 9 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- $40,000–79,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions13
- Total compensation, all staff$1.1M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Yasmin Wright (general member); Chantal Brine (general member governance and); Samer Abughannam (board chair programs and eval); Sundeep Ghokale (chair governance and hr commi); Leslie Rivers (treasurer finance committee); Antoinette R. Tummillo (general member resource commi); Del Cowie (general member); Mike Lawless (general member); Jaime Shulman (general member); Miri Koller (secretary).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Unity Charity’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 857359012RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.