Saskatchewan Abilities Council Inc.
Publicly funded institution · Saskatoon, Saskatchewan · BN 107955221RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($49,692,259) as filed with the CRA.
Saskatchewan Abilities Council Inc. is a charitable organization based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, 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 December 31, 2024, it reported $50.2M in revenue and $49.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 66% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 49 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $328K.
Compared with 538 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 47% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 391 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $64K in 2024, the largest being $64K to Saskatchewan Prevention Institute. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 14 names.
In its own words
Saskabilities' purpose is to: 1. Relieve conditions associated with disability through provision of programs and services that increase independence and qality of life; 2. Promote health through rehabilitation assesments equipment and other support for individuals with health conditions. Our ongoing programs support this purpose by serving more than 60 000 children youth and adults experiencing disability in saskatchewan by providing vocational recreational and rehabilitation progrmas. This includes: 1. Providing orthopaedic services and speical needs equipment; such as wheelchair…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $50.2M | $49.7M | $45.4M | $708K | $64K | $16M |
| 2023 | $49.8M | $48.8M | $44.9M | $67K | $61K | $15.4M |
| 2022 | $46.8M | $45.8M | $41.9M | $592K | $58K | $14.3M |
| 2021 | $47.1M | $43.1M | $39.7M | $458K | $55K | $13.3M |
| 2020 | $40.5M | $39M | $35.9M | $337K | $55K | $9.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $64K to 1 qualified donee:
Received $328K from 49 charities:
- Easter Seals Canada Timbres de Pâques Canada$93K
- Kinsmen Foundation Inc.$45K
- Canadahelps Canadon$31K
- Canadahelps Canadon$31K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$25K
- Our Lady of the Prairies Foundation$20K
- Air Canada Foundation$20K
- A Dollar A Day Foundation$20K
- United Way Estevan Inc.$10K
- Saskatchewan Community Foundation Corp.$10K
- BenefAction Foundation$5,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$4,566
- Saskatchewan Community Foundation Corp.$2,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,600
- Fondation RONA$1,270
- Canadian National Christian Foundation$1,000
- Parkland Therapeutic Riding Association Inc.$1,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$915
- Link Charity Canada Inc$750
- Sasktel Telcare Employees Charity Trust$637
- United Way of Regina$630
- Melville and District Donors Choice Appeal$553
- Wynyard and District Combined Appeal$432
- Muenster and District Donors Choice$335
- Broadview and District Donor's Choice Appeal$275
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9996 positions
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions391
- Total compensation, all staff$27.3M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Bruce Acton (director); Brenda Bancescu (director); Paul Blackstock (vice-president); Bonnie Cherewyk (director); Kyle Chriest (director); Henri De la Agrde (director); Michelle Hunter (past president); Stanley Lautsch (director); Andrew Livingston (president); Nicole Onufreychuk (director); Sandra Ruff (director); William Schwarz (director); Jonathan Tremblay (director); Lawren Trotchie (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Saskatchewan Abilities Council Inc.’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 107955221RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.