GURSEWA CHARITABLE SOCIETY
Public foundationOther religions·27 CLEARFIELD DRIVE · BRAMPTON, ON · L6P 3L5·BN 860686401RR0001·website ↗
Last reported: F2024 filing · period ending 2024-12-31
This is a foundation: it mostly grants money to other charities, so program-spending ratios are the wrong lens. We show the share of spending disbursed to qualified donees instead.
What it does — in its own words
Ongoing programs
Conducting regular weekly Sikh Religious Congregations for worship. -Publishing Sikh Religious Audio & Video files books and pamphlets for the community's benefit. -Live broadcasting Kirtan (singing of Holy Hymns from the Sikh Scriptures) programs over the Internet to foster the community's spiritual growth. -Distributing Sikhism literature and multimedia resources to the community. -Providing Sikhism literature and multimedia resources on the World Wide Web (WWW) to promote the community's spiritual development. -Organizing Sikh Initiation Ceremonies. -Hosting spiritual day/summer camps. -D… Show more
Conducting regular weekly Sikh Religious Congregations for worship. -Publishing Sikh Religious Audio & Video files books and pamphlets for the community's benefit. -Live broadcasting Kirtan (singing of Holy Hymns from the Sikh Scriptures) programs over the Internet to foster the community's spiritual growth. -Distributing Sikhism literature and multimedia resources to the community. -Providing Sikhism literature and multimedia resources on the World Wide Web (WWW) to promote the community's spiritual development. -Organizing Sikh Initiation Ceremonies. -Hosting spiritual day/summer camps. -Developing apps for iPhone Android and other smartphones to disseminate messages from Gurbani and Sikh History. -Converting Sikh historical and spiritual books into Audio Book formats for the community's benefit. -Creating multimedia content to teach Sikh History Principles and Scriptures. -Performing binding repairs of the Scriptures for the benefit of the community. -Converting Sikh historical and spiritual books into PDF formats for the community's benefit. -Preserving the Scriptures for the betterment of the community. -Sponsoring international students and families facing financial challenges for participation in spiritual camps. -Providing aid for people in need including the homeless and victims of natural disasters and wars etc. -Organizing sports events for youth to divert them from engaging in harmful activities such as drug use etc.
Program descriptions from its F2024 T3010 filing, verbatim · self-reported · this is also the text our semantic search matches against. source ↗
Tier 1 — what we computed (open data)
From the charity's own F2024 T3010 filing. Self-reported; not independently verified. You can recompute every figure.
Disbursed to qualified donees
T1 · computed (open data)36%
Per its F2024 T3010, this share of total spending went to other registered charities.
T3010 line 5050 ÷ 5100 · Self-reported on the T3010; not independently verified. source ↗
Operating overhead
T1 · computed (open data)0%
Management, administration, and fundraising as a share of total spending. We treat 5–35% as the typical range; we state the figure, you judge.
T3010 line (5010 + 5020) ÷ 4950 · Self-reported on the T3010; not independently verified. source ↗
Reserves
T1 · computed (open data)4.6 yr
Years current reserves could cover program spending.
Sector quartiles: 0.4 yr / 0.8 yr / 7.5 yr (p25 / median / p90).
T3010 line (4100 + 4140) ÷ 5000 · Self-reported on the T3010; not independently verified. source ↗
Total revenue
T1 · computed (open data)$98K
Last-reported total revenue.
T3010 line 4700 · Self-reported on the T3010; not independently verified. source ↗
Donor-funded
T1 · computed (open data)67%
Share of revenue from receipted donations.
T3010 line 4500 ÷ 4700 · Self-reported on the T3010; not independently verified. source ↗
Government-funded
T1 · computed (open data)0%
Share of revenue from federal, provincial, and municipal sources.
T3010 line 4570 (or 4540+4550+4560) ÷ 4700 · Self-reported on the T3010; not independently verified. source ↗
Over the years
Every figure as filed at each fiscal period end, 2019–2024.
| Period end | Revenue | Cents to cause | Overhead | Reserves |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-12-31 | $120K | 98¢ | 2% | 4.2 yr |
| 2020-12-31 | $71K | 99¢ | 1% | 4.7 yr |
| 2021-12-31 | $70K | 97¢ | 3% | 12.4 yr |
| 2022-12-31 | $116K | 99¢ | 1% | 6.4 yr |
| 2023-12-31 | $142K | 99¢ | 1% | 4 yr |
| 2024-12-31 | $98K | 100¢ | 0% | 4.6 yr |
| trend |
From its T3010 filings (CRA annual releases) · self-reported, not audited by us · when a period is restated in a later release, the newest figures are shown · ✱ = cents-to-cause outside the valid 0–100% range (filing error; not used in rankings). source ↗
★ Tier 2 — Charity Intelligence (analyst-reviewed)
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Board of directors
5 directors reported · 2 of 5at arm's length
- Singh, Sukhjinder SSDirectornot at arm's length
- Kaur, Harpreet HKDirectorarm's length
- Singh, Amritpal ASDirector and Presidentarm's length
- Singh, Harvinder HSDirector and Secretarynot at arm's length
- Pabla, Parminder Singh PSPDirectornot at arm's length
From its F2024T3010 filing (public CRA record), as filed. “Arm's length” means not related to other officials by family or business ties. source ↗
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