Village Community Foundation
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 842137481RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,099,415) as filed with the CRA.
Village Community Foundation is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $1M in revenue and $1.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 90% from other charities. In 2024, 4 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $472K.
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 33% of peers.
Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $1.7M in 2020 to $1M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
Receive and maintain a fund or funds and to use or apply all or part of the principal and income therefrom for charitable purposes; to relieve poverty especially amongst children by providing education food and other basic supplies to persons in need to relieve hunger to prevent and cure disease to provide safe drinking water and to support basic infrastructure needed for sustainable development amongst the extremely poor; to educate the public by developing providing and supporting education programs especially for needy persons; and to develop or promote public health in developing…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1M | $1.1M | $893K | — | — | $17K |
| 2023 | $1.4M | $1.4M | $1.1M | — | — | $75K |
| 2022 | $1M | $1M | $775K | — | — | $25K |
| 2021 | $930K | $955K | $828K | — | — | $37K |
| 2020 | $1.7M | $1.6M | $1.6M | — | — | $62K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $472K from 4 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Total compensation, all staff$49K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Theresa Mersky (president); Seth Mersky (treasurer); Samuel Mersky (secretary).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Village Community Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 842137481RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.