Dying With Dignity Canada
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 118890086RR0001 · Supportive Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,064,840) as filed with the CRA.
Dying With Dignity Canada is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under supportive health care. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $3.8M in revenue and $3.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 68% from donations, 10% from other charities. In 2024, 35 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $495K.
Compared with 453 health charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 34% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 15 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.9M in 2020 to $3.8M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 13 names.
In its own words
Dying With Dignity Canada is the national human-rights charity committed to improving quality of dying protecting end-of-life rights and helping Canadians avoid unwanted suffering. We defend human rights by advocating for legislation related to assisted dying that respects the Canadian Constitution Act and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Our mandate is to: - advocate federally for appropriate legislation regarding medical assistance in dying and end of life. - advocate provincially for appropriate regulation regarding end-of-life choice and care that also respects the Act and the Chart…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.8M | $3.1M | $2.2M | $535K | — | $8.8M |
| 2023 | $3.3M | $2.8M | $1.8M | $635K | $0 | $8.1M |
| 2022 | $2.5M | $2.8M | $1.8M | $612K | — | $7.5M |
| 2021 | $2.2M | $2.3M | $1.4M | $655K | — | $7.8M |
| 2020 | $1.9M | $2M | $1.1M | $420K | — | $7.9M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $495K from 35 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$89K
- Canadahelps Canadon$89K
- The Slaight Family Foundation$75K
- Aqueduct Foundation$54K
- Audrey S. Hellyer Charitable Foundation$40K
- BenefAction Foundation$26K
- William James Henderson Foundation$25K
- Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto$24K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$19K
- The Victoria Foundation$11K
- Canada Gives$8,750
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$5,255
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$4,974
- The Rasmussen Foundation Limited$4,000
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$2,680
- GiftPact Foundation Inc.$2,500
- Oakville Community Foundation$2,000
- N.a. Taylor Foundation$2,000
- The Alix and Robert Jickling Foundation$2,000
- The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act$2,000
- Vancouver Foundation$1,600
- The Calgary Foundation$1,000
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$772
- Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal$650
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$583
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
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9995 positions
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions15
- Total compensation, all staff$1.5M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Daphne Gilbert (vice chair); Bev Helm-Myers (chair); Chantal Perrot (director); Jim Cowan (director); Roslyn Goldner (secretary); Ryan Webster (treasurer); Tammy Pham (director); Wayne Cochrane (director); Elyse Rosen (director); Shira Zipursky (director); Peter Godor (director); Hayden Rubensohn (director); Lynda Polan (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Dying With Dignity Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118890086RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.