Autism Speaks Canada
Charitable organization · North York, Ontario · BN 869420208RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,868,546) as filed with the CRA.
Autism Speaks Canada is a charitable organization based in North York, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $2.1M in revenue and $3.9M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 19% from donations, 10% from government, 43% from other charities. In 2024, 26 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $861K.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 19% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 92% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $120,000–159,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 20 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 3 qualified donees totalling $741K in 2024, the largest being $700K to The Hospital for Sick Children Foundation. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $5.6M in 2020 to $2.1M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Autism Speaks Canada is dedicated to promoting solutions across the spectrum and throughout the lifespan for the needs of individuals with autism and their families by supporting and working with community partners enhancing resources and services increasing understanding acceptance and inclusion for people with autism spectrum disorder and advancing research into causes and better interventions for autism spectrum disorder and related conditions.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.1M | $3.9M | $1.6M | $548K | $998K | $622K |
| 2023 | $2.8M | $3.7M | $1.3M | $821K | $915K | $2.4M |
| 2022 | $3.3M | $4.1M | $2.5M | $865K | $1.3M | $3.2M |
| 2021 | $4.1M | $3.9M | — | $582K | — | $0 |
| 2020 | $5.6M | $3.1M | — | $598K | $1.4M | $0 |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $741K to 3 qualified donees:
Received $861K from 26 charities:
- Wise Family Foundation$450K
- The Hospital for Sick Children Foundation$250K
- Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto$35K
- The Schulich Foundation$25K
- Abundance Canada$24K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$21K
- The Langar Foundation$20K
- BenefAction Foundation$10K
- Canadahelps Canadon$8,288
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$6,448
- United Way of Greater Toronto$2,472
- CN Employees' and Pensioners' Community Fund$2,390
- Olympia Charitable Foundation$1,960
- Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal$1,260
- United Way Waterloo Region Communities$840
- BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust$644
- Queen Margarets School 6132$601
- United Way of the Alberta Capital Region$564
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$536
- Vancity Community Foundation$350
- The Brown-Nusbaum Family Foundation$250
- United Way of Thunder Bay$138
- Rahma Foundation$100
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$43
- Burgundy Legacy Foundation$30
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9992 positions
- $80,000–119,9996 positions
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions20
- Total compensation, all staff$2M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Susan Zikman-Wise (board director-governance); Anthony Coles (board director); Joshua Shymko (vice chair); Sharad Goenka (board director); Nimet Karim (board director); James Maunder (board director); Rhonda McEwen (board director); Myriah Graves (board director); Anthony Coles (board director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Autism Speaks Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 869420208RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.