Abilities Centre Durham
Charitable organization · Whitby, Ontario · BN 889819116RR0001 · Complementary or Alternative Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($7,656,272) as filed with the CRA.
Abilities Centre Durham is a charitable organization based in Whitby, Ontario, classified by the CRA under complementary or alternative health care. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $7.7M in revenue and $7.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 47% from government. In 2024, 13 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $425K.
Compared with 453 health charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 66% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 90% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 66 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.8M in 2020 to $7.7M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Thrive - is an innovative adult day program for individuals 18+ with developmental disabilities. Employment services - supports individuals in building skills to ensure job readiness to participate in the labour market. Sports & recreation - promotes development of physical literacy and provides opportunities for individuals of all abilities to be active. Academy for student athlete development - delivers high performance student programs for able-bodied paralympic olympic and special olympic pathways. Mixed ability sports - involves educating coaches to engage everyone including individual…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $7.7M | $7.7M | $6.6M | $316K | — | -$2M |
| 2023 | $7.1M | $7.9M | $6.6M | $468K | — | -$2M |
| 2022 | $7.5M | $6.6M | $5M | $176K | — | -$1.1M |
| 2021 | $6.1M | $5.7M | $5.4M | $106K | — | -$2M |
| 2020 | $1.8M | $1.8M | $1.5M | $167K | — | -$2.4M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $425K from 13 charities:
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$349K
- BenefAction Foundation$20K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$20K
- MLSE Foundation$15K
- Petro-Canada CareMakers Foundation Fondation Proches Aimants Petro-Canada$7,500
- Canadahelps Canadon$3,669
- Aqueduct Foundation$3,550
- The BLG Foundation$2,500
- Durham Community Foundation$1,246
- Toronto Foundation$1,000
- United Way of Greater Toronto$977
- Jays CARE Foundation$500
- United Way of Durham Region$130
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- $40,000–79,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions66
- Total compensation, all staff$4.8M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Michele Cochran (director/chair); Jason Hunt (director/vice-chair); Natalie Hovey (director/treasurer); Tej Singh Hazra (director); Sean Pavlidis (director); Emmanuel Iheme (director); Elizabeth Roy (ex-officio director); Daniel Estoesta (director); Galen Flaherty (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Abilities Centre Durham’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 889819116RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.