University Settlement
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 119279412RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($5,729,155) as filed with the CRA.
University Settlement 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 December 31, 2024, it reported $5.8M in revenue and $5.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 68% from government, 5% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 9 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $246K.
Compared with 1,618 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 20% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 83% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 51 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 13 names.
In its own words
University settlement provides social educational recreational and cultural services to people living and working in greater toronto area.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $5.8M | $5.7M | $4.7M | $41K | — | $1.1M |
| 2023 | $5.5M | $5.6M | $4.6M | $54K | — | $1.1M |
| 2022 | $4.8M | $5.3M | $4.4M | $29K | — | $1.3M |
| 2021 | $5M | $4.9M | $4.1M | — | — | $1.7M |
| 2020 | $4.4M | $3.9M | $3M | — | — | $1.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $246K from 9 charities:
- United Way of Greater Toronto$211K
- Kids Up Front Foundation (toronto)$11K
- Canadahelps Canadon$7,663
- Toronto Foundation$6,000
- Kiwanis Club of Casa Loma Foundation$5,000
- The Toronto Star Children's Charities$3,040
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$783
- BenefAction Foundation$250
- 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:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9996 positions
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions51
- Total compensation, all staff$4.5M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Andrew Massey (member); Dariusz Szypula (member); Hannah Riordan (board chair); Jeffrey Zhu (secretary); John Amardeil (member); Mark Haan (vice chair); Mark Van Ginkel (member); Maureen Gans (member); Michelle Lin (treasurer); Myriam Gafarou (member); Ripudaman Jagayat (member); Sherry McLean (member); Sonya Gulati (member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from University Settlement’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119279412RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.