Variety - the Children's Charity (ontario)
Charitable organization · Scarborough, Ontario · BN 118955137RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-09-30. Split of total expenditures ($2,845,179) as filed with the CRA.
Variety - the Children's Charity (ontario) is a charitable organization based in Scarborough, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, it reported $2.7M in revenue and $2.8M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 56% from donations, 10% from government, 5% from other charities. In 2024, 13 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $453K.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 24% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 11 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $648K in 2024, the largest being $648K to Variety Village. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 21 names.
In its own words
Variety-The Children's Charity (Ontario) aims to break down barriers to accessibility for education sport fitness and improve the quality of life for individuals with a disability in Ontario. Areas of focus include specialized programs camps and support from Variety Village sports training and fitness facility. Individuals with disabilities are able to build their skills and confidence to become active and contributing members of the community develop and learn physical as well as social skills and have their emotional social needs met.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.7M | $2.8M | $1.4M | $587K | $648K | $2.6M |
| 2023 | $2.1M | $1.9M | $734K | $497K | $490K | $2.8M |
| 2022 | $1.6M | $1.5M | $313K | $561K | $459K | $2.5M |
| 2021 | $2M | $2.1M | $579K | $329K | $957K | $2.4M |
| 2020 | $2.1M | $2M | $351K | $484K | $947K | $2.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $648K to 1 qualified donee:
- Variety Village$648K
Received $453K from 13 charities:
- The DR. Wolf Lebovic Charitable Foundation$150K
- Canadahelps Canadon$134K
- Canadahelps Canadon$134K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$10K
- Gary & Maxie Bluestein Charitable Foundation$8,000
- Gary & Maxie Bluestein Charitable Foundation$5,500
- London Community Foundation$4,000
- Rotary Club of Toronto Eglinton Charitable Foundation$3,000
- United Way of Greater Toronto$1,500
- Arbor Memorial Foundation$1,000
- The Azrieli Foundation$1,000
- Canada Gives$750
- Toronto District School Board$718
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9994 positions
- $40,000–79,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions11
- Total compensation, all staff$922K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
David Safer (director); Karen Stintz (president and ceo); John Willson (treasurer); Charles Taerk (vice chair); Anita Billing (cfo); Jordan Assaraf (chair); Jeff Armstrong (director); Alex Bowles (director); Maria Vradis (director); Shahriar Syedshahin (director); Mark Palmer (director); Michelle Way (director); Neil Claydon (director); Gerard Arbour (director); Alexandra Hyland (director); Kate Dobrucki (director); Graeme Switzer (director); Karin Ots (director); Elayne Miles (director); Al D'Addese (director); David Brown (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Variety - the Children's Charity (ontario)’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118955137RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.