Cota Health
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 121969661RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($91,488,664) as filed with the CRA.
Cota Health is a charitable organization based in Toronto, 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 $92.4M in revenue and $91.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 94% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $470.
Compared with 427 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 86% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 343 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $61.5M in 2020 to $92.4M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
Cota is an accredited not-for-profit provider of community mental health services in the greater toronto area. The organization assists persons living with mental illness developmental disabilities dual diagnosis acquired brain injuries and those who are experiencing homelessness or under-housed. Programs offered include support services that encourage personal recovery individual development and integration into the community residential housing and assistance to persons who are challenged with maintaining their housing.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $92.4M | $91.5M | $89.1M | — | — | $8.3M |
| 2023 | $79.7M | $79.4M | $76.3M | — | — | $6.9M |
| 2022 | $70.1M | $69.8M | $67M | — | — | $7.1M |
| 2021 | $67.7M | $67.4M | $64.8M | — | — | $6.8M |
| 2020 | $61.5M | $61.2M | $58.8M | — | — | $5.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $470 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9997 positions
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions343
- Total compensation, all staff$22.9M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
William Noble (chair); Christine Conrad (vice chair); Wayne Seifried (treasurer); Sophie Bart (director); Martin Chicilo (director); Arielle DI Iulio (director); Gloria Er-Chua (director); Wes Iqbal (director); Frank Massara (director); Ruby Tatla (director); Marko Trivun (director); Paul Bruce (ceo secretary).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Cota Health’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 121969661RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.