Choices Association Inc.
Publicly funded institution · Dundas, Ontario · BN 119247872RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($13,972,043) as filed with the CRA.
Choices Association Inc. is a charitable organization based in Dundas, 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 $13.8M in revenue and $14M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 89% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2022, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $100.
Compared with 538 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 41% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 100% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (6 positions in that band). The charity reported 82 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
Providing vocational and daily supports and devices to adults with physical and developmental disabilities.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $13.8M | $14M | $12.7M | $0 | $0 | $3.7M |
| 2023 | $12.6M | $12.5M | $11.3M | — | — | $3.9M |
| 2022 | $11.4M | $11.3M | $10.3M | — | — | $0 |
| 2021 | $11.5M | $11.3M | $10.6M | — | — | $0 |
| 2020 | $11.2M | $11.3M | $10.3M | — | — | $0 |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2022
Received $100 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9996 positions
- $40,000–79,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions82
- Total compensation, all staff$10.5M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Catherine Carr (president); Omar Mahamed (director); Lisa Bono (director); Jannett Thompson (executive director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Choices Association Inc.’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119247872RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.