Renascent Fellowship is a 2-star, financially transparent charity with an Average impact rating. It has a reasonably sized reserve of cash and investments and 74% total overhead spending. For every dollar donated, 26 cents are available to go to the cause.

Founded in 1970, Renascent Fellowship (Renascent) provides rehab and mental health services to people suffering from drug and alcohol addiction. It runs three inpatient addiction treatment centres – two in Toronto and one in Durham – where those in need enter gender-specific programs. Renascent also runs virtual addictions programming and responds to emails and calls from people struggling with addiction.

Renascent Fellowship runs four programs: Men’s & Women’s Addiction Treatment, Virtual Treatment Programming, Access Centre, and Family Program. It spent $7.7m on these programs in the March 2024 (F2024) fiscal year.

Men’s & Women’s Addiction Treatment was 72% of Renascent’s program spending. In F2024, the charity admitted 803 unique people into intensive care treatment based on the Alcoholics Anonymous 12-Step Model. These patients spent a collective 21,499 days in treatment.

Virtual Treatment Program was 15% of Renascent’s program spending. The charity created this program during the COVID-19 pandemic due to capacity restrictions. The charity enrolled 334 people in this online rehab program during F2024.

Access Centre was 8% of Renascent’s program spending. The charity’s outreach team responds to calls and emails from people suffering from a crisis. In F2024, Renascent made 29,632 connections with people looking for help.

Family Program was 5% of Renascent’s program spending. The charity offers counselling and other mental health supports to children and families. According to Renascent, it helped 273 adults and 28 children in F2024.

Renascent Fellowship (operating charity) receives funding from the Renascent Foundation (foundation) – a separately registered charity. Accordingly, Ci consolidated the audited financial statements of both charities.

Both the operating charity and foundation’s audited financial statements follow line-item costing, meaning it does not clearly report which expenses relate to program, administrative, and fundraising activities. This is not a best practice.

In F2024, Renascent received $643k in donations and special events revenue (6% of total revenue) and $4.2m in government funding (42% of revenue). Administrative costs are 13% of total revenue and fundraising costs are 61% of donations. Its 74% total overhead spending means that for every dollar donated, 26 cents are available to go the cause. This is outside Ci’s reasonable range.

In F2024, Renascent spent $7.7m on its programs – a 2% increase from $7.6m spent on its programs in F2023.

At the end of F2024, Renascent had $2.4m gross and $494k net reserve funds. Ci backed out $1.9m worth of interest-bearing debts from its gross reserves. Its reserves can cover 30% or just under four months of its annual program spending.

Profile updated by Julian Dranitsaris on June 13, 2025. Comments and corrections may be forthcoming.

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