Canopy Support Services
Publicly funded institution · Peterborough, Ontario · BN 130913387RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures (—) as filed with the CRA.
Canopy Support Services is a charitable organization based in Peterborough, 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 $28.5M in revenue.
Its funding that year was roughly 91% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $391.
Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 106 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $15.6M in 2020 to $28.5M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
Canopy Support Services delivers case management services for adults who have exceptional needs and advocacy services for individuals who have exceptional needs. Provide mediator based training to parents of children with behaviourial difficulties and mediator based training for parents and staff supporting adults who have exceptional needs. Provide staff training to other similar agencies. Supply mgnt. support to operate centralized access to specialists. Assist children and youth with ASD to develop skills in the area of behavioural management/emotional regulation communication social/…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $28.5M | — | — | — | — | $2.5M |
| 2023 | $25.2M | $24.7M | $23.5M | — | — | $2.1M |
| 2022 | $21.4M | $21.2M | $20.5M | — | — | $1.6M |
| 2021 | $18.7M | $18.3M | $17.5M | — | — | $1.5M |
| 2020 | $15.6M | $15M | $15M | $0 | $0 | $1.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $391 from 2 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9999 positions
- Permanent full-time positions106
- Total compensation, all staff$7.5M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Catherine Pink (past president); Colleen Carruthers (president); Amanda English; Christopher Elliott (treasurer); Kimberly Randell; Tina Thorton; Josias (Si) Grobler.
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Canopy Support Services’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 130913387RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.