Watoto Canada
Charitable organization · Burlington, Ontario · BN 863953618RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($5,104,305) as filed with the CRA.
Watoto Canada is a charitable organization based in Burlington, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $5.1M in revenue and $5.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 86% from donations, 8% from other charities. In 2024, 88 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $307K.
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 79% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 9 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
In co-operation with our linked organization noted above the charity provides a holistic care programme that was initiated as a response to the overwhelming number of orphaned children and vulnerable women in uganda. Watoto is positioned to rescue an individual raise each one as a leader in their chosen sphere of life so they in turn will rebuild their nation. The watoto model involves physical care medical intervention including hiv/aids treatment education formal and technical trauma rehabilitation and spiritual discipleship.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $5.1M | $5.1M | $4.9M | — | — | $422K |
| 2023 | $4.6M | $4.8M | $4.5M | — | — | $452K |
| 2022 | $4.5M | $4.6M | $4.4M | — | — | $652K |
| 2021 | $4.7M | $4.7M | $4.5M | — | — | $797K |
| 2020 | $5.2M | $5.2M | $5M | — | — | $771K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $307K from 88 charities:
- Seacliff Foundation$20K
- Springs of Living Water Centre Inc.$18K
- Glad Tidings Church (victoria)$18K
- Richmond Hill Pentecostal Church$18K
- Evangel Community Church$13K
- Church on the Queensway$12K
- New Life Christian Fellowship$10K
- Trinity Pentecostal Church$10K
- Glad Tidings Pentecostal Church$9,406
- Richmond Pentecostal Church$8,530
- Southside Pentecostal Assembly of Edmonton$7,946
- Parkwood Gospel Church of Windsor$7,594
- Canadahelps Canadon$7,204
- Sunday Line Communications Society$7,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$6,026
- Impact Church - Kingston$5,524
- Peel Pentecostal Tabernacle$5,000
- Highway Pentecostal Church$4,635
- Community Pentecostal Church of Ottawa$4,382
- Springs of Living Water Christian Academy Incorporated$4,044
- Northstar Fellowship Baptist Church$3,876
- Centre Évangélique de Laval Inc.$3,745
- Woodstock Baptist Church Incorporation$3,723
- River Valley Community Church and Fellowship of Medicine Hat$3,720
- East Side Church of God$3,621
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9996 positions
- $1–39,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions9
- Total compensation, all staff$516K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Gary Skinner (chair); Ben Wendland (treasurer); John Rayner (board member); John Burns (board member); James Skinner (director); Julius Rwotlonyo (director); Jonathan Hutchison (director); Graham Plett (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Watoto Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 863953618RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.