Halton Community Legal Services
Publicly funded institution · Oakville, Ontario · BN 124267261RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,208,884) as filed with the CRA.
Halton Community Legal Services is a charitable organization based in Oakville, Ontario, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. 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 $1.2M in revenue and $1.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 100% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget.
Compared with 829 community-service institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 70% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 11 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Operate a 'legal clinic' from monday to friday. We provide advice and/or representation to low income residents of halton.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.2M | $1.2M | $1.1M | — | — | $72K |
| 2023 | $1.2M | $1.2M | $1.1M | — | — | $92K |
| 2022 | $1.2M | $1.2M | $1.1M | — | — | $132K |
| 2021 | $1.2M | $1.1M | $1.1M | — | — | $158K |
| 2020 | $1.2M | $1.1M | $1M | — | — | $185K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9994 positions
- $1–39,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions11
- Total compensation, all staff$964K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jay Jackson (director); Charles Barhydt (director); Nick Praysner (vice chair); Dianne Lemieux (chair); Janet Pickell (interim treasurer); Caroline Campbell (secretary); Kiran Kang (treasurer); Tjitske Cno (director); Atmaja Bhatt-Shah (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Halton Community Legal Services’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 124267261RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.