Kidsability Centre for Child Development Foundation
Public foundation · Waterloo, Ontario · BN 890943673RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($6,119,424) as filed with the CRA.
Kidsability Centre for Child Development Foundation is a public foundation based in Waterloo, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $5.5M in revenue and $6.1M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 41% from donations, 34% from other charities. In 2024, 34 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.6M.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 42% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 8 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 4 qualified donees totalling $5.1M in 2024, the largest being $5.1M to Kidsability Centre for Child Development. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 16 names.
In its own words
The Foundation raises funds to support the work of KidsAbility Centre for Child Development which provides services to children and young adults who have developmental physical and communication disabilities in Waterloo Region and Wellington County.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $5.5M | $6.1M | $6,332 | $565K | $5.1M | $18.8M |
| 2023 | $3.1M | $1.7M | $23K | $479K | $807K | $18.5M |
| 2022 | $4M | $3.4M | $8,203 | $516K | $2.4M | $17.9M |
| 2021 | $3.5M | $2.8M | $5,333 | $565K | $2M | $17.6M |
| 2020 | $4.1M | $2.5M | $3,026 | $585K | $1.7M | $14.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $5.1M to 4 qualified donees:
Received $1.6M from 34 charities:
- The Lyle Shantz Hallman Charitable Foundation$440K
- Abundance Canada$387K
- Waterloo Region Community Foundation$270K
- Definity Insurance Foundation$75K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$50K
- Bridgeway Foundation$50K
- Astley Family Foundation$50K
- Canadahelps Canadon$47K
- Canadahelps Canadon$47K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$31K
- Len and Helen Georgiou Foundation$25K
- The Ross and Doris Dixon Charitable Foundation$24K
- Rotary Club of Kitchener Grand River Charitable Foundation$20K
- The May Court Club of Kitchener-Waterloo$9,000
- Aqueduct Foundation$7,200
- Kitchener-Conestoga Rotary Club Community Aid Fund$7,164
- Flanagan Family Foundation$7,000
- The Gordon Linkletter Family Fund$6,000
- The Jim and Lorna Blair Charitable Foundation$5,000
- Doane Grant Thornton Foundation$4,000
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$3,250
- BenefAction Foundation$3,000
- The Guelph Community Foundation$2,819
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,685
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,106
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions8
- Total compensation, all staff$757K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Donna Kuppers (director and vice chair); Eric Strassburger (director); David Brune (director); Leslie Doherty (director); Valerie Hoag (director and chair); Wayne Chang (director); Shankha Bhattacharyya (director); Suk Bedi (director and treasurer); Alexander Kinsella (director); Kate Durdan (director and past chair); Kathleen McDonald (director and secretary); Lisa Talbot (official executive director); Todd Aitchison (director); Rebecca Aavasalmi (director); Susan Hallman (director); Tim Forestell (director and ex-oficio).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Kidsability Centre for Child Development Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 890943673RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.