Epilepsy Ontario
Charitable organization · Concord, Ontario · BN 118900844RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($651,323) as filed with the CRA.
Epilepsy Ontario is a charitable organization based in Concord, Ontario, classified by the CRA under core health care. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $628K in revenue and $651K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 10% from donations, 19% from government. In 2024, 13 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $271K.
Compared with 1,130 health charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 42% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 89% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 5 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 7 qualified donees totalling $19K in 2024, the largest being $9,156 to Epilepsy South Central Ontario. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
Epilepsy Ontario provides information support and counseling for people living with Epilepsy. In addition the organization provides the Summerfest Camp program and provincially focused education and training to community stakeholders and access to a resource centre. Extensive awareness activities include the weekly enews Voices of Epilepsy various online and print publications and stakeholder presentations March Awareness Month and Purple Day activities. Facilitates ongoing support to new chapters and existing local epilepsy agencies. Distributes brochures to families medical offi…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $628K | $651K | $484K | $105K | $19K | $499K |
| 2023 | $920K | $666K | $466K | $160K | $15K | $523K |
| 2022 | $598K | $602K | $419K | $142K | $21K | $268K |
| 2021 | $647K | $603K | $490K | $51K | — | $272K |
| 2020 | $515K | $528K | $400K | $63K | — | $228K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $19K to 7 qualified donees:
Received $271K from 13 charities:
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$140K
- Locking Arms Foundation$50K
- The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation$25K
- Canadahelps Canadon$25K
- Canadahelps Canadon$25K
- The Toronto Star Children's Charities$3,040
- Oakville Community Foundation$1,700
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$655
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$550
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$324
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$260
- United Way of Greater Toronto$46
- My Tribute Gift Foundation—
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
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- $1–39,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions5
- Total compensation, all staff$306K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Melanie Jeffrey (president); Lynn Zeppieri (treasurer); Kyle Hockley (director); Shelly LaForest (director); Nathan Honsberger (director); John Fekete (director); Paul Raymond (ceo); Susan Talmey (chief financial officer); Zoha Zahid (director); Gena Meldazy (director); Sydney Hopkins (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Epilepsy Ontario’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118900844RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.