Niagara Children's Centre
Publicly funded institution · ST. Catharines, Ontario · BN 123428799RR0001 · Core Health Care
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($13,401,162) as filed with the CRA.
Niagara Children's Centre is a charitable organization based in ST. Catharines, 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 $14.2M in revenue and $13.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 11% from donations, 79% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 30 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $204K.
Compared with 538 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 30% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 111 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
The centre provides rehabilitation and treatment services to children with physical developmental or communicative challenges
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $14.2M | $13.4M | $11.9M | $462K | — | $5.6M |
| 2023 | $13.8M | $13M | $11.7M | $397K | — | $4.8M |
| 2022 | $12.2M | $11.8M | $10.5M | $359K | — | $4M |
| 2021 | $10.6M | $10.2M | $9.4M | $272K | — | $3.6M |
| 2020 | $11.7M | $10.2M | $9.4M | $228K | — | $3.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $204K from 30 charities:
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$31K
- Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de Niagara$25K
- Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de Niagara$22K
- Rotary Club of Welland Crippled Children's Trust$22K
- Mackenzie Investments Charitable Foundation$20K
- Niagara Catholic District School Board$18K
- Kiwanis Club of ST Catharines Charitable Trust$10K
- Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de Niagara$10K
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$7,741
- Aqueduct Foundation$5,000
- The Guelph Community Foundation$5,000
- United Way Niagara$3,089
- United Way Niagara$3,089
- BenefAction Foundation$3,000
- Fondation RONA$2,869
- OSEG Foundation$2,500
- The Edith and Bernard Ennis Foundation$2,500
- The McKeil Family Foundation$2,500
- Canadahelps Canadon$1,854
- Barterpay It Forward Foundation$1,145
- Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de Niagara$1,060
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$1,049
- The Yousef Haj-Ahmad Family Foundation$1,000
- Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de Niagara$1,000
- Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de Niagara$691
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9992 positions
- $80,000–119,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions111
- Total compensation, all staff$10.4M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Lois Ouellette (chair); Angela Davidson (vice-chair); Lynne Burnside (director); Frank Demizio (director); Dolores Fabiano (director); Lorne Gretsinger (director); Larry Kent (director); Volker Kerschl (director); Mat Siscoe (director); Barbara Van Der Heyden (director); Kate Wiley (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Niagara Children's Centre’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 123428799RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.