Aphasia Institute
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 133065227RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,293,569) as filed with the CRA.
Aphasia Institute is a charitable organization based in Toronto, 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 $2.3M in revenue and $2.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 8% from donations, 74% from government, 6% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 10 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $416K.
Compared with 717 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 24% 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 (3 positions in that band). The charity reported 18 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 14 names.
In its own words
1. Providing direct service programs to people with aphasia and their families with the goal of reducing social isolation and increasing communicative access to participation in daily life within a community settling. 2. Providing education and training for families and service providers. 3. Selling motivational and educational resources that enable families friends and service providers to communicate more 4. Support research with regards to aphasia
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.3M | $2.3M | $1.9M | $43K | — | $2.7M |
| 2023 | $2.2M | $2.1M | $1.3M | — | — | $2.7M |
| 2022 | $2.1M | $1.9M | $1.2M | — | — | $2.6M |
| 2021 | $2.3M | $2M | $1.3M | $5,475 | — | $2.3M |
| 2020 | $1.8M | $1.8M | $1.2M | $8,259 | — | $2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $416K from 10 charities:
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$139K
- Canadahelps Canadon$124K
- Canadahelps Canadon$124K
- BenefAction Foundation$20K
- Earnest Charitable Foundation Founder$5,000
- United Way of Greater Toronto$2,363
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$541
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$432
- Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto$280
- My Tribute Gift Foundation—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- $40,000–79,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions18
- Total compensation, all staff$1.3M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
George Kopulos (director); Nida Chaudhary (treasurer secretary); Hicham El Chazli (director); Peter Blakely (vice chair); Silvia Gomes (board chair); Talya Wolff (director); Musarait Kashmiri (director of finance & op); Neelam Jolly (director); Ananya Tandon-Verma (director); Jane Brenneman Gibson (director); Natalie Gierman (executive director); Christine Patten (director); Hugh Pattison (director); Mary Cicinelli (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Aphasia Institute’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 133065227RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.