Covenant House Toronto is a 2-star charity with Low demonstrated impact. It has above average disclosure with an A- results reporting grade. Its overhead spending and funding reserves are within Ci’s reasonable range.

Founded in 1982, Covenant House Toronto (COVT) helps homeless youth aged 16 to 24 move off the streets. It offers shelter, housing, job training and mental health support. The charity also runs awareness campaigns and anti-trafficking education and pushes for policy change. According to the charity, more than 1,500 youths are homeless on any given night in Toronto, but the city has only 740 youth shelter beds. Covenant House provides about 30% of these beds.

Covenant House Toronto runs three main programs: Shelter and Crisis Care, Long-Term Transitional Housing, Community Support Services and Outreach. It also runs several smaller programs. The charity spent $34.0m on its programs in F2025. Across all its programs, COVT also served 5,272 meals each week.

Shelter and Crisis Care accounted for $12.2m or 36% of program spending. COVT runs an emergency shelter, a winter respite program and a drop-in service for homeless youth in Toronto. The winter respite program offers shelter, meals and support during winter. The Drop-In program gives youth a hot meal, clean clothes and a safe place to rest during the day. In F2025, 369 youths stayed in the crisis shelter and 243 youths took part in the winter respite program. Its Drop-In program served about 100 youths a day.

Long-term Transitional Housing accounted for $11.0m or 32%, of program spending. The charity helps youth move from shelter into stable, independent housing in the community. In F2025, it opened a new 64-bed transitional housing program in South Etobicoke. This brought its total housing capacity to 257 beds. In F2025, it helped 227 youths move into independent housing.

Community Support Services and Outreach accounted for $7.9m or 23%, of program spending. COVT runs life skills and job training programs for youth. This includes Cooking For Life, which trains youth in kitchen skills and gives them a job placement at a Toronto restaurant. Across these programs, youths earned 1,559 life skills credits in F2025.

Other Programs accounted for $2.9m or 9% of program spending. This covers health care, public education and research. Through its on-site health clinic, Covenant House Toronto treated 718 youths and gave mental health counselling to 426 youths. Through public education, the charity reached 29,751 students with presentations on homelessness and trafficking.

In F2025, COVT had $61.0m of total revenues. Donations accounted for $42.2m or 69% of revenues. Government funding was $6.6m or 11% of revenues. In F2025, the charity spent $34.0m on its programs. This was 56% of revenues.

Administrative costs were $2.3m or 4% of revenues (less investment income). Fundraising costs were $9.8m or 23% of donations. For every dollar donated to the charity, 73 cents are available to go to the cause. This is within Ci’s reasonable range.

The charity also paid external fundraisers $908k in F2025 who raised $474k for the charity. This equates to a cost of $1.92 for every dollar raised through external fundraisers.

As of F2025, the charity had $60.5m in cash and investments. Its funding reserves can cover 1 year and 9 months of its annual program costs. This is within Ci’s reasonable range.

Profile updated by Raihan Firosh on June 29, 2025. Comments and corrections may be forthcoming.