Alzheimer Society Waterloo Wellington
Publicly funded institution · Kitchener, Ontario · BN 106705338RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,842,613) as filed with the CRA.
Alzheimer Society Waterloo Wellington is a charitable organization based in Kitchener, Ontario, classified by the CRA under core health care. 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 $2.2M in revenue and $1.8M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 25% from donations, 57% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 21 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $126K.
Compared with 717 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 4% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 29 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
Supportive counselling and referral / support groups for family and friends of persons with alzheimer's disease and other dementias / education for family friends professionals staff and the public/ in-service training for professional caregivers/ first link and minds in motion programs/ virtual or over the phone therapeutic recreational programming/ various social programs for persons with alzheimer's disease and other dementias
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.2M | $1.8M | $1M | $184K | — | $2.4M |
| 2023 | $1.8M | $1.8M | $1.3M | $199K | — | $2M |
| 2022 | $1.8M | $1.7M | $1.2M | $184K | — | $2M |
| 2021 | $1.7M | $1.4M | $1M | $165K | — | $1.9M |
| 2020 | $1.8M | $1.4M | $940K | $150K | — | $1.7M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $126K from 21 charities:
- Alzheimer Society of Ontario$66K
- United Way Community Services of Guelph and Wellington$18K
- Canadahelps Canadon$17K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$12K
- Social Venture Partners Waterloo Region$5,059
- Waterloo Region Community Foundation$1,734
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$1,458
- Blessings to You Free Center$1,000
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$1,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$803
- The Schneider Family Foundation$500
- United Way Waterloo Region Communities$459
- Abundance Canada$330
- Cedar Hill United Church$293
- United Way of Greater Toronto$260
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$202
- Canada Donates Inc.$138
- Allen-Bradley Employees' Charitable Fund$106
- University of Waterloo$100
- ST Luke's Anglican Church$68
- My Tribute Gift Foundation—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9998 positions
- Permanent full-time positions29
- Total compensation, all staff$1.4M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Uzzam Riaz (treasurer); Cheryl Sarnavka (secretary); Catherine Jones (president); Ian Kaufman (vice president); Janis Randall Simpson (director); Ernie Doyle (director); Christine Rupert (director); Jessica Chalk (director); Victoria Shi (director); Victoria Young (director); Frank Newman (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Alzheimer Society Waterloo Wellington’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 106705338RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.