HelpAge Canada
Charitable organization · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 118955921RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,617,884) as filed with the CRA.
HelpAge Canada is a charitable organization based in Ottawa, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $2.5M in revenue and $2.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 43% from donations, 46% from other charities. In 2024, 24 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.6M.
Compared with 1,125 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 50% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (5 positions in that band). The charity reported 14 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 18 qualified donees totalling $175K in 2024, the largest being $20K to The Council on Aging of Ottawa/le Conseil sur le Vieillissement d'Ottawa. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $557K in 2020 to $2.5M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 13 names.
In its own words
Men's sheds: a men's shed is a community -based group open to all providing a safe friendly inclusive environment to gather and raticipate in group activities. Age better (previously seniors can!): is an initiative of helpage canada designed to help low-income seniors across canada avoid isolation and loneliness and to engage more fully with their communities. Ukraine program: in response to the russian invasion of ukraine helpage canada began a fundraising campaign to contract with helpage international (hai) for program delivery in moldova poland and ukraine. Gaza: in response to the …
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.5M | $2.6M | $1.2M | $52K | $1.1M | $252K |
| 2023 | $3.8M | $3.9M | $1.2M | $124K | $2.2M | $376K |
| 2022 | $2M | $2M | $1.6M | $40K | $220K | $400K |
| 2021 | $1.6M | $1.6M | $1.1M | $57K | $331K | $437K |
| 2020 | $557K | $548K | $439K | $49K | $18K | $458K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $175K to 18 qualified donees:
- The Council on Aging of Ottawa/le Conseil sur le Vieillissement d'Ottawa$20K
- Age Friendly Cold Lake Society$10K
- The Good Companions$10K
- Spencer House Seniors Centre$10K
- Sou'West Nova Transit Association$10K
- Never Alone Cancer Foundation Inc.$10K
- Meals on Wheels London$10K
- Mawi Ta'MK Society$10K
- Fondation des Petits Frères des Pauvres$10K
- La Porte Jaune the Yellow Door$10K
- Desert Valley Hospice Society$10K
- Carya Society of Calgary$10K
- Capital Region Mental Health & Addictions Association Inc.$10K
- Brella Community Services Society$10K
- Active adult centre of Mississauga$10K
- Spinal Cord Injury Ontario$5,000
- Centre d'Action Benevole R H Rediker/r H Rediker Volunteer Center$5,000
- Calgary Meals on Wheels$5,000
Received $1.6M from 24 charities:
- Canada-Ukraine Foundation$1.3M
- The Samuel Family Foundation$150K
- Canadahelps Canadon$47K
- Canadahelps Canadon$47K
- HBMJ Foundation$27K
- The Azrieli Foundation$10K
- Bayshore Foundation for Empowered Living$5,025
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$4,182
- Vancouver Foundation$3,467
- Toronto Foundation$1,452
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,389
- The Winnipeg Foundation$1,258
- The Foundation of Greater Montreal$1,000
- Christ the Saviour Orthodox Church$1,000
- Crawford Macleod Foundation$1,000
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$750
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$547
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$505
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$400
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$379
- Vancity Community Foundation$200
- United Way of the Alberta Capital Region$96
- Les Moniales Carmélites de Montréal$50
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$7
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9995 positions
- $40,000–79,9999 positions
- Permanent full-time positions14
- Total compensation, all staff$920K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Amy Westland (chairperson); Allen Brett Campeau (secretary); Anthony Kupferschmidt (director); Christine Vilcocq (director); Daniel Alumbo (director); Donald Hefler (director); Jenviev Azzolin (director); Kahir Noodin Lalji (vice-chair); Kory Smith (director); Michael Chrostowski (director); Simon Cheesman (director); William Morphet (treasurer); Kyle Shimon (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from HelpAge Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118955921RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.