Ancaster Community Services
Charitable organization · Ancaster, Ontario · BN 118786375RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($470,427) as filed with the CRA.
Ancaster Community Services is a charitable organization based in Ancaster, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $552K in revenue and $470K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 34% from donations, 22% from government, 23% from other charities. In 2024, 15 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $233K.
Compared with 2,470 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 46% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 4 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Ancaster community services supports residents of ancaster and surrounding rural areas by offering vital services and programs which assist those in need. On going programs include: assisted volunteer driving (seniors) information and refferal counselling emergency food assistance christmas/holiday assistance crisis support youth employment services babysitting course community shopping events bus (seniors) and shopping for seniors.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $552K | $470K | $409K | $8,403 | — | $727K |
| 2023 | $556K | $478K | $415K | $6,811 | — | — |
| 2022 | $594K | $443K | $384K | $15K | — | $568K |
| 2021 | $538K | $411K | $312K | $13K | — | $417K |
| 2020 | $402K | $363K | $228K | $31K | — | $293K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $233K from 15 charities:
- Greater Hamilton Food Share$105K
- United Way Golden Horseshoe$56K
- Hamilton Golf and Country Club Foundation$25K
- Hamilton Community Foundation$14K
- Canadahelps Canadon$8,894
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$6,897
- Theatre Ancaster$6,500
- The Charitable Trust of the Rotary Club of Ancaster Morning$5,000
- Meadowlands Fellowship Christian Reformed Church$2,601
- Grace Community (ancaster) Christian Reformed Church$1,711
- Marshall Memorial United Church$500
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$404
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$250
- Ancaster Horticultural Society$100
- United Way of Greater Toronto$22
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
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- $1–39,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions4
- Total compensation, all staff$288K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Margaret Degroot (director); Salvatore Frisina (secretary); Karl Hanley (director); Lisa Mancini (director); Lisa Morine (vice chair); Lynne Morris (chair); Kaylee Norwood (executive director); Gloria Rojas (director); Kathryn Smith (treasurer).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Ancaster Community Services’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118786375RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.