Better Living Health and Community Services
Publicly funded institution · North York, Ontario · BN 834982720RR0001 · Public Amenities · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures (—) as filed with the CRA.
Better Living Health and Community Services is a charitable organization based in North York, Ontario, classified by the CRA under public amenities. 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 $11.1M in revenue.
Its funding that year was roughly 74% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $79K.
Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 93 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
The organization provides a wide range of programs and services that enables seniors to live independently in their homes. Services include day program meals of wheels transportation respective care homemaking social work visiting hospice residential hospice and house maintenance
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $11.1M | — | $9.7M | — | — | $5.5M |
| 2023 | $10.5M | $9.3M | $8.7M | — | — | $4.8M |
| 2022 | $10.1M | $9.7M | $9.1M | — | — | $3.7M |
| 2021 | $10.6M | $9.1M | $8.5M | — | — | $3.4M |
| 2020 | $10M | $9.2M | $8.7M | — | — | $2.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $79K from 2 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9993 positions
- $80,000–119,9996 positions
- $40,000–79,99936 positions
- $1–39,99940 positions
- Permanent full-time positions93
- Total compensation, all staff$6.7M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Leslie Olsen (director); Sam Chinniah (director); Antonio Niro (treasurer); Carol Hamilton (director); Robert Horne (director); Kathy Kendall (first vice chair); Rick Lustri (chair); Sharon Sonnilal (director); Maryam Musa (director); Sandy Chang (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Better Living Health and Community Services’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 834982720RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.