Yorktown Family Services
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 136729597RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($8,557,873) as filed with the CRA.
Yorktown Family Services is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. 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 $8.7M in revenue and $8.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 13% from donations, 69% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 28 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $885K.
Compared with 1,618 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 57% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 107 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Violence against women services (vaws) provide a safe haven for women and their children fleeing abusive relationships. The shelter staffed 24/7 is supported by a multilingual and multicultural team committed to the well-being and empowerment of women who have been abused and to healthy development of their children. Beyond emergency shelter vaws offers residents programs such as individual counseling safety planning transitional support groups referrals and accompaniment to appointments to support clients. Yorktown's infant child and youth mental health services are an accredited child…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $8.7M | $8.6M | $7.8M | $231K | — | $1.3M |
| 2023 | $7.4M | $7.2M | $6.5M | $260K | — | $1.2M |
| 2022 | $6.6M | $6.4M | $5.8M | $128K | — | $1.1M |
| 2021 | $6.5M | $6.5M | $5.9M | $134K | — | $921K |
| 2020 | $6M | $5.9M | $5.3M | $127K | — | $836K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $885K from 28 charities:
- United Way of Greater Toronto$445K
- RBC Foundation$70K
- Shoppers Foundation for Women's Health$51K
- Capitalize For Kids Foundation$50K
- Canadahelps Canadon$41K
- Canadahelps Canadon$41K
- Temerty Foundation$35K
- The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation$25K
- The Brown-Nusbaum Family Foundation$25K
- The Bickle-Wilder Foundation$20K
- TD Securities Underwriting Hope Fund$15K
- W. C. Kitchen Family Foundation$15K
- The Graham Burton Foundation$10K
- The Schulich Foundation$5,000
- The Schulich Foundation$5,000
- Frederick and Douglas Dickson Memorial Foundation$5,000
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$5,000
- The Ben and Hilda Katz Charitable Foundation$5,000
- CHUM Charitable Foundation$3,450
- The Henry White Kinnear Foundation$3,000
- Unifor Social Justice Fund/Le fonds de justice sociale d'Unifor$2,365
- Unifor Social Justice Fund/Le fonds de justice sociale d'Unifor$2,365
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$1,672
- The Dawson Family Sharing Foundation$1,000
- McCarthy Tetrault Foundation$1,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9999 positions
- Permanent full-time positions107
- Total compensation, all staff$6.4M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Lawrence Biricz (vice chair); Blair Morrison (chair); Wayne Dowers (treasurer); Thomas Arkell (director); Susan Campbell (director); Lachlan Macquarrie (director); Shannon Thom (director); Michael Zivot (director); Cynthia Richards (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Yorktown Family Services’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 136729597RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.