Durham Children's Aid Society
Publicly funded institution · Oshawa, Ontario · BN 129476404RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($61,952,361) as filed with the CRA.
Durham Children's Aid Society is a charitable organization based in Oshawa, 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 $61M in revenue and $62M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 95% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 3 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $111K.
Compared with 427 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 10% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 294 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 15 names.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $61M | $62M | $50.6M | — | — | $6.3M |
| 2023 | $60.1M | $60M | $47.6M | — | — | $7.2M |
| 2022 | $59.5M | $58.6M | $47.6M | — | — | $7M |
| 2021 | $58.9M | $58.9M | $47.9M | — | — | $5.8M |
| 2020 | $64.7M | $64.7M | $53.4M | — | — | $6.8M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $111K from 3 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
- $120,000–159,9998 positions
- Permanent full-time positions294
- Total compensation, all staff$33.5M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Nana Ayiku (treasurer/director); Andrew Campbell (president/director); Laura Colwell (appointed director); Joseph Idegwu (director); Vera Mercier (vice president/director); Cassandra Duncan (director); Stacey Lepine-Fisher (secretary/director); Jolleen Matthews (director); Graciel Ballestros (director); Nadia Gouveia (director); Gillian Lock (director); Drew Samuels (director); Matthew Sinclair (hon.past pres/director); Victoria Bozinovski (director); Heather Hilker (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Durham Children's Aid Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 129476404RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.