Canadian Guide Dogs for the Blind
Publicly funded institution · Manotick on, Ontario · BN 106846819RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,716,081) as filed with the CRA.
Canadian Guide Dogs for the Blind is a charitable organization based in Manotick on, Ontario, classified by the CRA under teaching institutions. 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 December 31, 2024, it reported $3.7M in revenue and $2.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 54% from donations, 10% from other charities. In 2024, 48 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $494K.
Compared with 1,247 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 40% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 19 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
1) Training program: Dogs are trained to work as Guide Dogs and Assistance Dogs. 2) Puppy Walker program: Volunteer program fostering puppies in family homes form 2 months to approximately 14 months of age with basic obedience training and social integration being the key functions of the foster homes. 3) Matching program: Dogs and visually impaired clients throughout Canada are carefully matched according to personality and environmental needs. 4) Residential program: Training session for visually impaired clients with their guide dogs to become an independent unit. 5) After care progr…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.7M | $2.7M | $2.3M | $235K | — | $20.9M |
| 2023 | $4.2M | $5M | $2.1M | $229K | $2.5M | $19.2M |
| 2022 | $4.2M | $2.4M | $2M | $205K | — | $20M |
| 2021 | $6M | $5.7M | $1.8M | $222K | $3.5M | $18.9M |
| 2020 | $4.8M | $2.2M | $1.8M | $220K | — | $17.8M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $494K from 48 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$112K
- Canadahelps Canadon$112K
- The Holt Foundation$71K
- Maud and Christina Duncan Charitable Foundation$30K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$26K
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$21K
- The Eric S. Margolis Family Foundation$15K
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$10K
- McEachern Family Foundation$10K
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$9,944
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$9,549
- Vancouver Foundation$6,992
- Aqueduct Foundation$6,000
- The Norman and Margaret Jewison Charitable Foundation$5,000
- Arno Family Foundation$5,000
- The Tonglen Foundation$5,000
- BenefAction Foundation$4,877
- Community Foundation for Kingston & Area$4,409
- F. K. Morrow Foundation$4,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$2,506
- London Community Foundation$1,880
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$1,582
- United Way of Calgary and Area$1,516
- The Toronto Hong Kong Lions Foundation$1,500
- GiftPact Foundation Inc.$1,500
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9997 positions
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions19
- Total compensation, all staff$1.3M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jane Thornton (ex-officio director); Edward Mann (chair); Mary Jane Binks (vice chair); Brian Scott (secretary); Donna Tessier (director); Robert Meredith (treasurer); Shane Bennett (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Canadian Guide Dogs for the Blind’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 106846819RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.