Cayr Community Connections
Publicly funded institution · Newmarket, Ontario · BN 890484769RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,367,795) as filed with the CRA.
Cayr Community Connections is a charitable organization based in Newmarket, Ontario, classified by the CRA under core health care. 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 $1.4M in revenue and $1.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 71% from government, 21% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 5 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $130K.
Compared with 717 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 34% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 8 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 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 | $1.4M | $1.4M | $1.2M | $11K | — | $276K |
| 2023 | $1.2M | $1.2M | $1M | $3,220 | — | $199K |
| 2022 | $1M | $914K | $774K | $1,313 | — | $237K |
| 2021 | $854K | $855K | $682K | — | — | $149K |
| 2020 | $1M | $1.1M | $893K | — | — | $149K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $130K from 5 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions8
- Total compensation, all staff$960K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Michelle Sudeyko (chair); Nishit Shah (member at large); Douglas McCready (member at large); Wynonna Gomes (secretary); Lisa Padgett (vice chair); Mikaela Thompson (member at large); Ajith Thiyagalingam (member at large); Brett Brinkhof (treasurer); Larry Little (member at large).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Cayr Community Connections’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 890484769RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.