Personal Choice Independent Living/choix Personnel Vie Auton
Publicly funded institution · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 106974066RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,877,285) as filed with the CRA.
Personal Choice Independent Living/choix Personnel Vie Auton is a charitable organization based in Ottawa, 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 $4M in revenue and $2.9M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 96% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $13.
Compared with 1,618 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 52% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 22 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
Providing housing and support for physically disabled adults. Assisted living services for high risk seniros in the community
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4M | $2.9M | $2.6M | — | — | $970K |
| 2023 | $3.8M | $3.5M | $3.2M | — | — | $852K |
| 2022 | $3.7M | $3.7M | $3.1M | — | — | $2.6M |
| 2021 | $3.9M | $3.9M | $3.4M | — | — | $495K |
| 2020 | $3.6M | $3.4M | $2.9M | — | — | $445K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $13 from 2 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9999 positions
- Permanent full-time positions22
- Total compensation, all staff$3.4M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Valerie Bishop de Young (past chairperson); Deborah Heins (chair person); Stacy Norris (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Personal Choice Independent Living/choix Personnel Vie Auton’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 106974066RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.