Community Support Connections - Meals on Wheels and More
Publicly funded institution · Breslau, Ontario · BN 129621298RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($5,013,050) as filed with the CRA.
Community Support Connections - Meals on Wheels and More is a charitable organization based in Breslau, 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 $5.2M in revenue and $5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 8% from donations, 66% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 12 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $321K.
Compared with 1,618 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 37% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (4 positions in that band). The charity reported 67 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
Meals on wheels shopping list transportation exercise falls prevention caregiver support friendly visiting system navigation and lehgo (let's go home transition from hospital to home from frail clients).
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $5.2M | $5M | $4.3M | $297K | — | $1.1M |
| 2023 | $4.8M | $4.7M | $4.3M | $73K | — | $859K |
| 2022 | $4.6M | $4.6M | $4.2M | $71K | — | $705K |
| 2021 | $4.6M | $4.5M | $3.8M | $118K | — | $702K |
| 2020 | $4.5M | $4.6M | $4M | $78K | — | $635K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $321K from 12 charities:
- United Way Waterloo Region Communities$116K
- Waterloo Region Community Foundation$79K
- Canadahelps Canadon$59K
- Canadahelps Canadon$59K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$5,424
- Kitchener-Conestoga Rotary Club Community Aid Fund$2,300
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$1,000
- Abundance Canada$300
- The Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation of the Diocese of Hamilton in Ontario$300
- ST Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church$150
- My Tribute Gift Foundation—
- Brenda & Dave Walden Family Foundation—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9994 positions
- $40,000–79,99922 positions
- $1–39,99989 positions
- Permanent full-time positions67
- Total compensation, all staff$3.2M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2022)
Salim Muzaffar (president); Aran Matier (past president); Dipali Batabyal (vice president); Stephanie Scandrett (treasurer); Gail Roth (director); Anne Tinker (director); Rick Robertson (director); Andrew Pearen (director); Sunanda Sachdev (director); Stephanie Dell (director); Devin Bonner (director); Abduke Melka (director).
As listed on its 2022 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Community Support Connections - Meals on Wheels and More’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 129621298RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.