Ontario Disability Employment Network
Publicly funded institution · Whitby, Ontario · BN 126650449RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,178,114) as filed with the CRA.
Ontario Disability Employment Network is a charitable organization based in Whitby, Ontario, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. 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 $2.4M in revenue and $2.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 75% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $186.
Compared with 829 community-service institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 95% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (7 positions in that band). The charity reported 18 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1M in 2020 to $2.4M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
Network encourages participation and engages individuals employment service providers and educators that support people who have a disability to achieve competitive employment.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.4M | $2.2M | $2.2M | — | — | $766K |
| 2023 | $1.5M | $1.5M | — | — | — | $581K |
| 2022 | $1.2M | $1.1M | $1.1M | — | — | $521K |
| 2021 | $1.3M | $1.1M | $1.1M | — | — | $516K |
| 2020 | $1M | $905K | $905K | — | — | $359K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $186 from 2 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9997 positions
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions18
- Total compensation, all staff$1.3M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Sandra Leslie (board chair/treasurer); Michael Dawthorne (past chair); Johanne Strome (director); Ann Nelson (director); Christine Guillemette (board vice chair); Linda Simpson (secretary); Jeanette Campbell (ceo); Derek Roy (director); Ashley Sweeney (director); Ann Szabo (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Ontario Disability Employment Network’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 126650449RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.