Balance for Blind Adults
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 132784851RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($812,114) as filed with the CRA.
Balance for Blind Adults is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. 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 $823K in revenue and $812K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 9% from donations, 87% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 11 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $250K.
Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 7 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 13 names.
In its own words
Specialized one to one teaching methods geared towards blind people offering opportunities for community access and assisting with finding and supporting blind individuals with employment
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $823K | $812K | — | — | — | $371K |
| 2023 | $712K | $692K | $597K | $489 | — | $360K |
| 2022 | $657K | $670K | $569K | $5,695 | — | $341K |
| 2021 | $550K | $560K | $475K | $153 | — | $354K |
| 2020 | $644K | $604K | $513K | $5,572 | — | $363K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $250K from 11 charities:
- United Way of Greater Toronto$108K
- Canadahelps Canadon$40K
- Canadahelps Canadon$40K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$40K
- The Whitearn Foundation/la Fondation Whitearn$10K
- Arthur & Audrey Cutten Foundation$10K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$863
- The Chapnik Foundation$500
- My Charity Fund$250
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$147
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$100
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
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- $1–39,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions7
- Total compensation, all staff$484K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Bob Stark; Michelle McQuigge (past chair); Virginia Duff (secretary); Keith Gordon (chair); Steven Ricci; Robin Dafoe; Meenakshi Venkatesan; Joeita Gupta; Wayne Yeung; Lizna Husnani-Puchta; Gillian Davis; Ana Juricic; Alex Bulmer.
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Balance for Blind Adults’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 132784851RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.