Viola Jean's Garden Daycare
Publicly funded institution · Owen Sound, Ontario · BN 815218375RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2023-09-02. Split of total expenditures ($445,875) as filed with the CRA.
Viola Jean's Garden Daycare is a charitable organization based in Owen Sound, Ontario, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. 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 September 2, 2023, it reported $453K in revenue and $446K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 54% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2022, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $144.
Compared with 1,183 community-service institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 82% of peers. The charity reported 8 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $234K in 2020 to $453K in 2023. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
Provides daycare to children through operation of toddler and preschool program.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2023
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | $453K | $446K | $428K | $346 | — | $16K |
| 2022 | $353K | $368K | $348K | $345 | — | $8,886 |
| 2021 | $306K | $286K | $269K | $353 | — | $24K |
| 2020 | $234K | $232K | $213K | $398 | — | $4,480 |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2022
Received $144 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2023)
Val McCrae (president); Christine Waukey (chairwoman); Nicole Armstrong (treasurer); Ashley Hillier (officer); Jessamyn McNabb; Stephanie McCartney (officer).
As listed on its 2023 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Viola Jean's Garden Daycare’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 815218375RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.