Chats-Community & Home Assistance to Seniors
Publicly funded institution · Aurora, Ontario · BN 132090978RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures (—) as filed with the CRA.
Chats-Community & Home Assistance to Seniors is a charitable organization based in Aurora, 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 $25.2M in revenue.
Its funding that year was roughly 7% from donations, 76% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 19 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $739K.
Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 289 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
Chats is an innovative and valued partner in the health and social care system delivering high quality home and community services and experiences for older adults and their caregivers. Chats offers a basket of service aimed at enabling older adults to live independently safely and well at home. The services include community programs designed for social and wellness caregiver education and support transportation to medical appointments and other and adult day programs. In home service offerings include meals on wheels homemaking respite care personal care home maintenance and home ad…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $25.2M | — | — | — | — | $4.1M |
| 2023 | $22.3M | — | — | — | — | $2.7M |
| 2022 | $20.9M | $20.4M | — | — | — | $2.1M |
| 2021 | $20.6M | $20.4M | $17.5M | $175K | — | $1.5M |
| 2020 | $19.9M | $19.8M | $17.1M | $195K | — | $1.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $739K from 19 charities:
- United Way of Greater Toronto$235K
- The Joseph Lebovic Charitable Foundation$175K
- The Ciro and Caterina Gucciardi Charitable Foundation$150K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$62K
- Canadahelps Canadon$25K
- Canadahelps Canadon$25K
- The Dunin Foundation$25K
- Mika Charitable Foundation$14K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$7,575
- F. K. Morrow Foundation$6,900
- Canada Gives$5,000
- Barry and Laurie Green Family Charitable Trust$2,500
- Holy Trinity Church$2,000
- Toronto Foundation$1,626
- Aurora Seniors Association$500
- United Way of Greater Toronto$375
- Markham Pastoral Charge$200
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$150
- My Tribute Gift Foundation—
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
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9995 positions
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions289
- Total compensation, all staff$17M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Mary Bayliss (chair); John Buie (director); Christina Bisanz (secretary); Avijeet Parmar (vice chair/treasurer); Fareen Kassam (director); Brenda MacPherson (director); Grant Waddell (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Chats-Community & Home Assistance to Seniors’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 132090978RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.