Spinal Cord Injury Ontario
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 118835081RR0002 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($6,952,180) as filed with the CRA.
Spinal Cord Injury Ontario is a charitable organization based in Toronto, 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 $7M in revenue and $7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 63% from government, 23% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 19 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.6M.
Compared with 717 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 7% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 87% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 51 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $11K in 2024, the largest being $11K to Federated Health Charities. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 15 names.
In its own words
Navigaton services connecting experienced and knowledgeable navigators to help people negotiate the health system achieve their goals and gain independence after a spinal cord injury and providing essential equipment and mobility aids to those who cannot afford them. Employment services connecting peer mentors with lived experiences to help the newly injured individuals and their families to overcome the social psychological and physical challenges of living with a disability. Peer support services connecting peer mentors with lived experiences to help newly injured individuals and th…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $7M | $7M | $4.8M | $796K | — | $234K |
| 2023 | $6.9M | $6.9M | $5.1M | $734K | — | $233K |
| 2022 | $6.4M | $6.4M | $4.9M | $578K | $108K | $233K |
| 2021 | $7.1M | $7.1M | $4.8M | $610K | $947K | $230K |
| 2020 | $10.3M | $10.3M | $8.7M | $814K | — | $229K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $11K to 1 qualified donee:
- Federated Health Charities$11K
Received $1.6M from 19 charities:
- Ontario Paraplegic Foundation$1.5M
- Federated Health Charities Corporation$43K
- Bourassa Savaria Foundation$20K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$11K
- Petro-Canada CareMakers Foundation Fondation Proches Aimants Petro-Canada$7,500
- Canadahelps Canadon$5,881
- HelpAge Canada$5,000
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$2,585
- The Tonglen Foundation$1,500
- GiftPact Foundation Inc.$1,400
- Martin Luther Evangelical Church Inc.$1,000
- BenefAction Foundation$935
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$813
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$625
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$217
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$92
- United Way of Greater Toronto$87
- United Way Waterloo Region Communities$36
- My Tribute Gift Foundation—
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
- $120,000–159,9994 positions
- $80,000–119,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions51
- Total compensation, all staff$4.9M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Eleanor Evans (secretary/treasurer); Karen Vigmond (director); Dana Francoz (chair); Emily McIntyre (director); Omar Ha-Redeye (director); Sarah Hicks (director); Barbara Ibbitson (director); Joanne Macdonald (director); Alex McKinnon (treasurer); Taylor Lindsay-Noel (chair); Eugene Wai (director); Nish Bandara (director); Christine Lelacheur (director); Ron Duffy (director); Danielle Russell (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Spinal Cord Injury Ontario’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118835081RR0002), or read how we compute the receipt.