Deafblind Ontario Services
Publicly funded institution · Newmarket, Ontario · BN 131834319RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($24,451,933) as filed with the CRA.
Deafblind Ontario Services is a charitable organization based in Newmarket, 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 $24.9M in revenue and $24.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 87% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 6 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $864K.
Compared with 427 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 62% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 202 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $133K in 2024, the largest being $133K to DeafBlind Ontario Foundation. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
The organization helps people who are deafblind deaf hard of hearing or with non traditional form of communication increase their independence and quality of life through residential programs and specialized services.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $24.9M | $24.5M | $22.8M | $4,425 | $97K | $3.2M |
| 2023 | $23M | $22.9M | $21.4M | $2,800 | $15K | $3.5M |
| 2022 | $21.4M | $21.5M | $20M | $650 | — | $3.3M |
| 2021 | $18.4M | $19.1M | $15.5M | — | $2.3M | $3.2M |
| 2020 | $16.6M | $16.6M | $15.1M | $63K | — | $3.9M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $133K to 1 qualified donee:
Received $864K from 6 charities:
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
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions202
- Total compensation, all staff$17.7M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Lise Gagnon (chair); Richard Boychuk (director); Raymond Coutu (director); Joe Filippelli (director); Tiffany Barker (director); Kevin Daoust (director); Donald Spink (director); Greg Paget (director); Kelly O'Neill (director); Kathleen Peters (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Deafblind Ontario Services’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 131834319RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.