The Ontario Caregiver Organization
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 762540714RR0001 · Supportive Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($5,717,090) as filed with the CRA.
The Ontario Caregiver Organization is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under supportive 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 $5.7M in revenue and $5.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 99% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 3 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $891K.
Compared with 717 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 38% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 26 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 18 qualified donees totalling $69K in 2024, the largest being $6,000 to Waterloo Wellington Down Syndrome Society. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
The Ontario Caregiver Organization exists to support Ontario's 4 million unpaid caregivers who provide physical and/or emotional support to a family member partner friend or neighbour in need. We work to amplify and spread existing caregiver support programs as well as deliver programs and supports to caregivers where gaps are identified. Our purpose is to improve the lives of Ontario caregivers by ensuring all caregivers can access the support they need regardless of diagnosis of the person they care for where they live in the province or their age.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2023–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $5.7M | $5.7M | $4.8M | — | $90K | $12K |
| 2023 | $3.8M | $3.8M | $3.1M | — | $50K | $3,657 |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $69K to 18 qualified donees:
- Waterloo Wellington Down Syndrome Society$6,000
- Community Living Guelph Wellington$4,500
- Durham Down's Syndrome Association$4,500
- Families Matter CO-Operative Inc.$4,500
- Ontario Prader-Willi Syndrome Association$4,500
- Community Living York South$4,500
- Coalition des familles francophones d'Ottawa$4,500
- Community Living Essex County$4,394
- Community Living Ajax-Pickering and Whitby$4,140
- Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre$4,000
- Community Living Burlington$3,500
- Down Syndrome Association of Simcoe County$3,450
- Moeen Centre for Physically Disabled and Developmentally Challenged Young Adults$3,200
- Autism Home Base Durham Inc.$3,000
- Waterloo Region Family Network$2,700
- Downe Syndrome Association of Peterborough$2,690
- Facile Futures Inc.$2,610
- Thunder Bay Family Network$2,450
Received $891K from 3 charities:
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
- $120,000–159,9993 positions
- $80,000–119,9996 positions
- Permanent full-time positions26
- Total compensation, all staff$2.6M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Aarushi Puri (director); Emma Stainton (treasurer); David Arbuthnot (director); David Mosher (chair); Janine Pajot (director); Kasia Czarski (director); Nicole Waldron (director); Young Lee (director); Ravinder Singh (director); Yves Savoie (vice-chair).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Ontario Caregiver Organization’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 762540714RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.