Deaf Services Canada Inc.
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 107980625RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,631,032) as filed with the CRA.
Deaf Services Canada Inc. 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 $2.5M in revenue and $2.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 6% from donations, 59% from government, 11% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 17 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $405K.
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 position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 27 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.4M in 2020 to $2.5M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
Community support services -one-to-one general support - free tax clinic -settlement services - educational programming deaf children and youth programming - sign language summer program (slsp) day camp -sports program - children and youth recreation and outreach asl family education and services -asl language development services of the ontario government infant hearing program - family communication program - parent education program resource development services
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.5M | $2.6M | $2.3M | $93K | — | $327K |
| 2023 | $2.4M | $2.3M | $2M | $94K | — | $459K |
| 2022 | $368K | $374K | $323K | $15K | — | $352K |
| 2021 | $1.8M | $1.7M | $1.5M | — | — | $357K |
| 2020 | $1.4M | $1.4M | $1.2M | $80K | — | $209K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $405K from 17 charities:
- Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Toronto$298K
- Knight Bain Seath & Holbrook Spirit Foundation$27K
- Kids Up Front Foundation (toronto)$24K
- The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation$20K
- Xin Family Foundation$10K
- Mississauga Foundation$9,500
- The Kiwanis Club of Riverdale Charitable Foundation$5,000
- The Toronto Star Children's Charities$3,640
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$2,490
- The Robert Campeau Family Foundation$2,000
- CHUM Charitable Foundation$1,050
- Gary & Maxie Bluestein Charitable Foundation$800
- United Way of Greater Toronto$665
- Canadahelps Canadon$315
- Ontario Deaf Foundation$250
- The Loretto Ladies' Colleges and Schools$55
- The Diaper Bank of Toronto—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9999 positions
- Permanent full-time positions27
- Total compensation, all staff$1.9M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Brandon Goure (secretary); Jingchan Hu (member at large); Susie Lee-Fernandes (member at large); Nicolle Lehn (member at large); Jenelle Rouse (member at large); Giulio Schincariol (vice chair); Robert Wilson (chair); Donna Lin (member at large); Ian Edmonds (treasurer); Ross Dickson (member at large).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Deaf Services Canada Inc.’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 107980625RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.