Bethesda-House of Mercy (bowmanville)
Publicly funded institution · Bowmanville, Ontario · BN 140835802RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,398,339) as filed with the CRA.
Bethesda-House of Mercy (bowmanville) is a charitable organization based in Bowmanville, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. 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 $1.4M in revenue and $1.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 5% from donations, 74% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 21 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $65K.
Compared with 1,618 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 68% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 12 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Emergency shelter for abused women and their children counseling for abused women and their children outreach program for abused women and their children.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.4M | $1.4M | $1.3M | $29K | — | $1.7M |
| 2023 | $1.3M | $1.4M | $1.1M | $20K | — | $1.6M |
| 2022 | $1.2M | $1.2M | $993K | $6,465 | — | $1.7M |
| 2021 | $1.2M | $1.1M | $954K | — | — | $1.7M |
| 2020 | $1.1M | $1.1M | $865K | — | — | $1.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $65K from 21 charities:
- Shoppers Foundation for Women's Health$12K
- Calvin and Frances Hamm Foundation$11K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$9,321
- Canadahelps Canadon$6,868
- Women's Shelters Canada$5,000
- Durham Community Foundation$4,500
- Trulls Road Free Methodist Church$3,000
- Vancouver Foundation$2,700
- Unifor Social Justice Fund/Le fonds de justice sociale d'Unifor$2,365
- Maranatha Christian Reformed Church of Bowmanville$1,581
- CHUM Charitable Foundation$1,300
- Faith United Church$1,150
- ST. Joseph's Council No. 6361 Charitable Welfare Trust$1,000
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$1,000
- United Way of Durham Region$869
- ST Paul's United Church$210
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$146
- Kedron Pastoral Charge$125
- United Way of Greater Toronto$122
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$100
- Troop Impact Foundation—
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
- $40,000–79,9999 positions
- Permanent full-time positions12
- Total compensation, all staff$1M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Kaitlin Loudon (president); Emma Cronin (treasurer); Heather Cant Woodward (secretary); Kristen Mackinnon (vice president); John Keating (director); Marco Sciaria (director); Nora Landry (director); Heer Pasha (director); Shauna Moore (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Bethesda-House of Mercy (bowmanville)’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 140835802RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.