Ontario Association of Childrens Aid Societies
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 107796708RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($11,276,630) as filed with the CRA.
Ontario Association of Childrens Aid Societies is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. 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 $11.5M in revenue and $11.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 60% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $351K.
Compared with 427 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 7% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $160,000–199,999 range (3 positions in that band). The charity reported 43 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $18.9M in 2020 to $11.5M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
OACAS provides programs and services to Its members the government and the public. For almost 100 years OACAS has provided service in the area of advocacy government relations communications youth In care Information management education and training accreditation Looking After Children French language services and member outreach. • Advocacy • publicly promotes or recommends policy directions and positions • Government Relations - promotes child welfare Interests with the provincial government • Communications • promotes the interests of OACAS and Its members to the media public …
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $11.5M | $11.3M | $8.9M | — | — | $6M |
| 2023 | $15M | $14.2M | $11.9M | — | — | $5.8M |
| 2022 | $17.4M | $17M | $15M | — | — | $5M |
| 2021 | $27.5M | $27.1M | $25.4M | — | — | $4.5M |
| 2020 | $18.9M | $18.7M | $16.9M | — | — | $4M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $351K from 2 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9993 positions
- $120,000–159,9995 positions
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions43
- Total compensation, all staff$6.9M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Ela Smith (board chair); Derrick Drouillard (board member); Joel Johnson (board member); Laurila Kelly (board member); Vera Mercier (board member); Anna Bozza (board member); Talyah Breslin (board member); Ahnika Bruetsch (board member); Pierre Morin (board member); Tracy Willoughby (board member); Jennifer McLauchlan (board member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Ontario Association of Childrens Aid Societies’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 107796708RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.