Vermont Square Parent - Child Mother Goose Program
Publicly funded institution · North York, Ontario · BN 892881988RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($209,090) as filed with the CRA.
Vermont Square Parent - Child Mother Goose Program is a charitable organization based in North York, Ontario, classified by the CRA under teaching institutions. 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 June 30, 2024, it reported $192K in revenue and $209K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 5% from donations, 35% from government, 36% from other charities. In 2024, 5 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $58K.
Compared with 1,540 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 68% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $40,000–79,999 range. The charity reported 2 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
The parent-child mother good program was first piloted in 1984 by a storyteller and social worker at children's aid toronto who was in despair at his inability to intervene in families suffering generations of dysfunction. The rhyme song and story-based group program succeeded because it shows mothers how to create secure attachment with their babies and it is highly enjoyable. At the same time the program gives babies' brains the right kind of stimulation during the most critical development period of their entire lives. The paks in a child's brain development - for literacy numeracy s…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $192K | $209K | $194K | — | — | $19K |
| 2023 | $188K | $245K | $229K | — | — | $36K |
| 2022 | $197K | $207K | $195K | — | — | $92K |
| 2021 | $228K | $193K | $178K | — | — | $103K |
| 2020 | $243K | $210K | $203K | — | — | $68K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $58K from 5 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions2
- Total compensation, all staff$147K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Irving Cho (treasurer); Mary Argent-Katwala (director); Uma Gopinath (director); Ana Vrana (director); Samina Hashmi (chair); Joan Macdonald (secretary); Allen Karakatsanis (director); Cynthia White (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Vermont Square Parent - Child Mother Goose Program’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 892881988RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.