Aboriginal Legal Services Inc.
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 129565040RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($6,251,034) as filed with the CRA.
Aboriginal Legal Services Inc. is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. 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 $7.6M in revenue and $6.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 8% from donations, 87% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 7 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $441K.
Compared with 829 community-service institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 39% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 59 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $4.8M in 2020 to $7.6M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
To educate & provide to the aboriginal community and to other citizens in the greater toronto area and where required elsewhere in ont. & canada on the legal rights of aboriginal peoples. To provide aboriginal controlled and culturally based justice alternatives to provide support services for the purposes of ensuring proper legal representation of aboriginal peoples and to provide culturally sensitive counselling services with the goal of better equipping the aboriginal community in the greater toronto area and where required elsewhere in ont. & canada in dealing with issues related to th…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $7.6M | $6.3M | $5.4M | — | — | $1.9M |
| 2023 | $6.6M | $6.6M | $5.7M | — | — | $560K |
| 2022 | $5.6M | $5.5M | $4.7M | — | — | $507K |
| 2021 | $4.8M | $4.6M | $4M | — | — | $364K |
| 2020 | $4.8M | $4.8M | $4.1M | $3,450 | — | $251K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $441K from 7 charities:
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
- $80,000–119,9995 positions
- $40,000–79,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions59
- Total compensation, all staff$4.6M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Darian Basjatawang (board member); Paul-Emile McNab (president); Basima Roshan (treasurer); Hugh O'Reilly (board member); Stephen Knight (board member); Derek Mastin (board member); Karlie Nordstrom (board member); Annette Borger (board member); Alexandra Cropp (board member); Chelsea Young (board member); Carilyn Parkinson (board member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Aboriginal Legal Services Inc.’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 129565040RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.