Capacity Canada
Charitable organization · Kitchener, Ontario · BN 816589287RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,466,590) as filed with the CRA.
Capacity Canada is a charitable organization based in Kitchener, Ontario, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.5M in revenue and $1.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 6% from donations, 8% from government, 48% from other charities. In 2024, 7 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.3M.
Compared with 299 community-service charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 37% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 78% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 5 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $939K in 2020 to $1.5M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
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Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.5M | $1.5M | $1.2M | $65K | — | $633K |
| 2023 | $1.4M | $1.3M | $1.1M | $55K | — | $604K |
| 2022 | $1.3M | $1.1M | $921K | $24K | $8,000 | $514K |
| 2021 | $1M | $904K | $703K | $16K | $6,000 | $370K |
| 2020 | $939K | $817K | $691K | $8,044 | $11K | $267K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $1.3M from 7 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions5
- Total compensation, all staff$658K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Joanna Lohrenz (chair); Jeanette Bancarz (director); Tim Rollins (director); Raksha Bhayana (director); Cynthia Wesley-Esquimaux (director); Susy Martins (director); Michael Lanteigne (vice-chair).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Capacity Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 816589287RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.