Asian Community AIDS Services
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 889432431RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,085,465) as filed with the CRA.
Asian Community AIDS Services is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. 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 $1M in revenue and $1.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 9% from donations, 80% from government, 6% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 7 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $34K.
Compared with 47 grantmaking institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 72% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 13 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $648K in 2020 to $1M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
Support program services including counseling referrals acase management assistance with acessign and aco-ordinating social services. Beravement services home visits buddy support. Language assistance and asian-language resource liabrary and information brochures. Education program services including outreach services information displays workshops on hiv/aids and related issues and workshops for peer educators. Volunteer program including recruitment training and development of volunteer base. Research and development program
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1M | $1.1M | $999K | $3,303 | — | $187K |
| 2023 | $803K | $814K | $710K | $8,662 | — | $231K |
| 2022 | $764K | $664K | $605K | $3,579 | — | $241K |
| 2021 | $717K | $636K | $583K | $2,279 | — | $141K |
| 2020 | $648K | $659K | $606K | $3,761 | — | $60K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $34K from 7 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9999 positions
- Permanent full-time positions13
- Total compensation, all staff$760K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Lindsey Li (chair); Raymund Carino (secretary); David Cai (treasurer); Le Thai Ly (director); Robinson Truong (vice-chair); Jaclyn Sze Ping Wong (director); Hogan Lam (director); Vanessa Yu (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Asian Community AIDS Services’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 889432431RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.