Canadian Hearing Services
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 106846926RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($27,555,195) as filed with the CRA.
Canadian Hearing Services is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. 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 $29.7M in revenue and $27.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 83% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 22 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.8M.
Compared with 23 grantmaking institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 30% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $250,000–299,999 range. The charity reported 247 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
Trusted since the 1940s Canadian Hearing Services provides industry-leading services products and programs to Deaf and hard-of-hearing Canadians to ensure barrier-free access and increased quality of life. It is an independent registered non-profit organization that reinvests proceeds from product and program sales back into community services the focus of the organization. For more information about CHS services visit www.chs.ca or call 1-866-518-0000.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $29.7M | $27.6M | $24.3M | $237K | — | $32M |
| 2023 | $41.5M | $25.6M | $22.4M | $246K | — | $29.9M |
| 2022 | $26.3M | $26M | $22.7M | $587K | — | $14M |
| 2021 | $27M | $24.6M | $22M | $298K | — | $13.7M |
| 2020 | $27.1M | $27.4M | $24M | $747K | — | $11.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $1.8M from 22 charities:
- United Way of Greater Toronto$910K
- The DR. Wolf Lebovic Charitable Foundation$380K
- The Joseph Lebovic Charitable Foundation$350K
- John M. & Bernice Parrott Foundation Inc.$100K
- United Way of Kingston Frontenac Lennox & Addington$58K
- Canadian Foundation for Physically Disabled Persons$6,000
- Canadahelps Canadon$5,785
- Brant United Way$5,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$4,721
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$1,250
- United Way of Greater Toronto$556
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$530
- The Calgary Foundation$500
- United Way of Thunder Bay$494
- United Way Golden Horseshoe$300
- CN Employees' and Pensioners' Community Fund$300
- United Way Elgin Middlesex$260
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$190
- United Way British Columbia$100
- United Way of the Alberta Capital Region$54
- Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal$36
- My Tribute Gift Foundation—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $250,000–299,9991 position
- $200,000–249,9993 positions
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions247
- Total compensation, all staff$20.5M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Mark Wafer (chair&chair finance/audit comm); Donna Bain (director); Fred Speckeen (vice chair); Asiyya Pisani (director); James Kyte (director); Michelle Séquin (director); Heather Tulk (director); Jojo Lai (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Canadian Hearing Services’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 106846926RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.