Arthritis Society Canada
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 108071671RR0003 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($31,719,450) as filed with the CRA.
Arthritis Society Canada is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under core health care. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $30.6M in revenue and $31.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 49% from donations, 24% from government, 8% from other charities. In 2024, 188 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $2.7M.
Compared with 85 health charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 20% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $350,000 and over range. The charity reported 152 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 13 names.
In its own words
Provide arthritis information services: (a) arthritis information line (1.800.321.1433); (b) arthritis website (www.arthirits.ca); (c) newsletters pamphlets and brochures; (d) digital information content provide education programs: (a) arthritis programs; (b) seminars and forums for the public; (c) displays and presentations; (d) childhood arthritis programs (camps). Fund research and career development: (a) investing in people through career development awards to fund arthritis education; (b) investing in ideas to keep arthritis research moving forward to find safe and effective solutions …
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $30.6M | $31.7M | $18.4M | $9.4M | — | $3.3M |
| 2023 | $29M | $29M | $16.9M | $8.4M | $38K | $4.4M |
| 2022 | $24.9M | $25.5M | $14.9M | $7.4M | $191K | $4.9M |
| 2021 | $26M | $23.7M | $12.5M | $7.9M | $33K | $5.3M |
| 2020 | $27.1M | $28.8M | $14.1M | $10.8M | $100K | $2.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $2.7M from 188 charities:
- Vancouver Foundation$458K
- The Calgary Foundation$334K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$179K
- Raymond Chang Foundation$150K
- Canadahelps Canadon$143K
- Canadahelps Canadon$143K
- Healthpartners Canada$134K
- The Etta I. Jackson Charitable Foundation$100K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$77K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$68K
- The Winnipeg Foundation$59K
- Sonrise Foundation$50K
- Margaret Rothweiler Charitable Foundation$35K
- The Windsor Foundation$30K
- Frederick and Douglas Dickson Memorial Foundation$25K
- RBC Foundation$25K
- The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation$25K
- Canada Gives$24K
- Aqueduct Foundation$24K
- BenefAction Foundation$24K
- R. Howard Webster Foundation$20K
- The KPMG Foundation/la Fondation KPMG$20K
- The Victoria Foundation$19K
- Richard Kert Foundation$18K
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$18K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $350,000 and over1 position
- $300,000–349,9992 positions
- $250,000–299,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9995 positions
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions152
- Total compensation, all staff$13.9M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Hopkins Nancy (chair); Evelyn Sutton (director); Michele Walsh (director); Neal Oswald (treasurer); Stephen Weiss (director); Andrew Branion (director); Deborah Greenberg (director); Jay-Ann Gilfoy (director); Jeff McCann (director); Jeffrey Brown (director); Lynn Oldfield (director); Vas Rao (director); John Chippindale (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Arthritis Society Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 108071671RR0003), or read how we compute the receipt.