Central West Specialized Developmental Services
Publicly funded institution · Oakville, Ontario · BN 107790263RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($41,381,865) as filed with the CRA.
Central West Specialized Developmental Services is a charitable organization based in Oakville, 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 $41.7M in revenue and $41.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 98% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 5 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $74K.
Compared with 427 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 73% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 256 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Cwsds is a not-for-profit charitable organization that provides a wide range of services to individuals with an intellectual/developmental disability in parts of central west region (dufferin halton peel wellington waterloo). It is funded by the ministry of children community and social services and some grant funding. Cwsds is governed by a volunteer board of directors. Programs include supportive living day services respite service coordination community-based services to individuals and their caregivers dual diagnosis services passport funding administration and a central west n…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $41.7M | $41.4M | $39.4M | — | — | $574K |
| 2023 | $40.8M | $40.8M | $38.7M | — | — | $207K |
| 2022 | $40.1M | $40.1M | $37.8M | — | — | $191K |
| 2021 | $37.5M | $37.5M | $35.8M | — | — | $133K |
| 2020 | $35.2M | $35.3M | $33.3M | — | — | $100K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $74K from 5 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9999 positions
- Permanent full-time positions256
- Total compensation, all staff$23.8M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Hashem Omar (director); Monica Bettazzoni (vice chair); Aisha Ghafoor (director); Sharoz Jafri (treasurer); Denise Mitchell (chairperson); Paul Bourque (secretary); Olivia NG (director); Scott Waterhouse (director); Sally Elsadek (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Central West Specialized Developmental Services’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 107790263RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.