Breaking Down Barriers an Independent Living Centre Inc.
Publicly funded institution · Collingwood, Ontario · BN 118817246RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($484,901) as filed with the CRA.
Breaking Down Barriers an Independent Living Centre Inc. is a charitable organization based in Collingwood, Ontario, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. 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 $549K in revenue and $485K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 10% from donations, 84% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 3 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $103K.
Compared with 1,147 community-service institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 22% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 77% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 4 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $343K in 2020 to $549K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
Peer support; independent living skills; information and referral services; self-managed attendant services employment support
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $549K | $485K | $360K | $6,327 | — | $369K |
| 2023 | $439K | $442K | — | — | — | $322K |
| 2022 | $406K | $393K | — | — | — | $325K |
| 2021 | $365K | $326K | — | — | — | $313K |
| 2020 | $343K | $325K | — | — | — | $273K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $103K from 3 charities:
- United Way Simcoe Muskoka$98K
- Canadahelps Canadon$4,584
- Canada Gives$200
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- $1–39,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions4
- Total compensation, all staff$282K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Tom Crawford (treasurer); Lisa McAuliffe (secretary); Sandy McAuliffe (member); Karen Srodulski (member); Alex Ballah (member); Kathryn Bloomfield (member); Ashlie Drake (member); Maria Andrews (member); Jan Sandberg (treasurer); Krista Taylor (member); Rebekah Vaughan (member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Breaking Down Barriers an Independent Living Centre Inc.’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118817246RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.