YMCA of Greater Toronto
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 119307080RR0001 · Support of Religion · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($327,692,725) as filed with the CRA.
YMCA of Greater Toronto is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under support of religion. 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 March 31, 2024, it reported $333M in revenue and $327.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 61% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 81 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $4.7M.
Compared with 29 religious institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 81% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $350,000 and over range. The charity reported 3,367 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 16 names.
In its own words
The YMCA of Greater Toronto is a charity that ignites the potential in people helping them grow lead and give back to their communities. For more than 170 years we’ve been tackling the most critical health and social issues in our region. Today we’re striving to boost well-being and promote equity across the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) through our programs including child care employment services education and training programs immigrant services youth leadership development outreach and intervention health and fitness camps and outdoor education and volunteer development. In 202…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $333M | $327.7M | $304.7M | $996K | — | $169.1M |
| 2023 | $276.9M | $303.9M | $281.2M | $1.7M | $0 | $163.6M |
| 2022 | $244.5M | $253.5M | $232.5M | $1.7M | $0 | $190.6M |
| 2021 | $320.3M | $218.8M | $202M | $1.2M | — | $199.6M |
| 2020 | $277.3M | $276.2M | $257.9M | $1.7M | — | $99.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $4.7M from 81 charities:
- The Barrett Family Foundation$1.5M
- Aqueduct Foundation$1M
- Wagner Green Family Trust$450K
- Daily Bread Food Bank$407K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$357K
- Steve and Sally Stavro Family Foundation$100K
- Longo Family Foundation$100K
- The PepsiCo Canada Foundation$90K
- Gordon & Ruth Gooder Charitable Foundation$75K
- The Peter Gilgan Foundation$70K
- Cidel Foundation$58K
- The Ranson Family Foundation$50K
- The Counselling Foundation of Canada$50K
- Avern Pardoe Foundation$44K
- TD Securities Underwriting Hope Fund$35K
- Toronto Foundation$34K
- The Ciro and Caterina Gucciardi Charitable Foundation$25K
- Canadahelps Canadon$20K
- Canadahelps Canadon$20K
- TD Friends of the Environment Foundation$14K
- The Glen Nevis Foundation$13K
- United Way of Greater Toronto$13K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$10K
- Second Harvest Canada$10K
- Burgundy Legacy Foundation$10K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $350,000 and over1 position
- $300,000–349,9991 position
- $250,000–299,9994 positions
- $200,000–249,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions3,367
- Total compensation, all staff$226.4M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Ravina Bains (director); David Green (director); Irene Markus (director); Akosua Matthews (vice chair); David McKeown (director); Steven Ranson (director); John MacIntyre (board chair); Peter MacLeod (director); Ahila Poologaindran (director); Jeanette MacDonald (director); Tamara Finch (director); Salima Rawji (director); Martha Tory (director); Anjum Sultana (director); Max Zhu (director); Lesley Davidson (president and ceo).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from YMCA of Greater Toronto’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119307080RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.