Kidsability Centre for Child Development
Publicly funded institution · Waterloo, Ontario · BN 108101783RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($31,056,587) as filed with the CRA.
Kidsability Centre for Child Development is a charitable organization based in Waterloo, Ontario, classified by the CRA under core health care. 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 $31M in revenue and $31.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 76% from government, 15% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 5 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $5.2M.
Compared with 538 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 48% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 263 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $28K in 2024, the largest being $28K to Waterloo Region Family Network. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $19.8M in 2020 to $31M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 16 names.
In its own words
KidsAbility Centre for Child Development provides physiotherapy occupational therapy speech and language therapy social work therapeutic recreation and behaviour therapy to children with physical and developmental special needs.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $31M | $31.1M | $28.4M | $0 | $28K | $1.7M |
| 2023 | $29.6M | $29.1M | $26.5M | — | $28K | $1.7M |
| 2022 | $24.6M | $24.1M | $21.8M | — | $28K | $1.2M |
| 2021 | $20.1M | $19.8M | $18.3M | — | $228K | $733K |
| 2020 | $19.8M | $19.6M | $16.7M | — | $1.4M | $428K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $28K to 1 qualified donee:
Received $5.2M from 5 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
- $160,000–199,9993 positions
- $120,000–159,9996 positions
- Permanent full-time positions263
- Total compensation, all staff$26.1M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Adrian DeCoo (director); Theresa Fischer (vice chair and treasurer); Peter Haney (past chair); Sandra Hanmer (director); Mary Law (director); Elizabeth Witmer (chair); Victoria Dupuis (director); Eileen Polson (secretary); Richard Martin (director); Ashley Biddiscombe (director); Tim Forestell (director); Uzma Bhutto (director); Chris Sajecki (director); Eric Davis (director); George Georghiades (director); Valerie Hoag (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Kidsability Centre for Child Development’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 108101783RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.