The Seeing Eye Organization
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 891008690RR0001 · Supportive Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-09-30. Split of total expenditures ($759,535) as filed with the CRA.
The Seeing Eye Organization is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under supportive health care. In its fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, it reported $694K in revenue and $760K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 100% from donations. In 2024, 16 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $81K.
Compared with 1,130 health charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 94% of peers.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $376K in 2020 to $694K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
The organization assists canadian resident blind and visually impaired persons with obtaining dogs to act as guides and training such persons in the proper use of handling of such guide dogs.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $694K | $760K | $760K | — | — | $138K |
| 2023 | $789K | $1.1M | $1M | — | — | $204K |
| 2022 | $944K | $598K | $559K | — | — | $488K |
| 2021 | $575K | $492K | $450K | — | — | $143K |
| 2020 | $376K | $408K | $377K | — | — | $59K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $81K from 16 charities:
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$51K
- The Eric S. Margolis Family Foundation$10K
- Canadahelps Canadon$9,711
- The Foundation Office.ca$5,000
- ATB Investor Services Foundation$1,200
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$660
- PNG Enterprise Foundation$500
- The Douglas A. Smith Family Foundation$500
- Vancouver Foundation$500
- Tesari Charitable Foundation$500
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$500
- Religieuses de Notre Dame du Sacre Coeur$200
- Gale Presbyterian Church$100
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$97
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$51
- United Way of the Alberta Capital Region$22
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Yvonne Peters (director); D. Murray Mackenzie (secretary/treasurer); Michelle McQuigge (chair); David McDermott (assistant secretary); Karen E. Leies (vice chair); Cayley Panov (director); James Hands (assistant treasurer); Pia Hundal (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Seeing Eye Organization’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 891008690RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.