Bethlehem Housing and Support Services
Charitable organization · ST Catharines, Ontario · BN 121926547RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($4,532,332) as filed with the CRA.
Bethlehem Housing and Support Services is a charitable organization based in ST Catharines, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $4.3M in revenue and $4.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 32% from government. In 2024, 26 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $158K.
Compared with 1,125 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 78% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 27 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $2.5M in 2020 to $4.3M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
Support transitional and permanent housing programs; early-on learning centres; community support outreach services; housing first programs: after school children's program.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.3M | $4.5M | $4.3M | $40K | — | $1.7M |
| 2023 | $4M | $4.1M | $3.8M | $58K | — | $2M |
| 2022 | $4.7M | $4.1M | $3.5M | $27K | — | $2M |
| 2021 | $3.7M | $3.7M | $3.5M | $27K | — | $0 |
| 2020 | $2.5M | $2.9M | $2.7M | $26K | — | $1.4M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $158K from 26 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$46K
- Canadahelps Canadon$46K
- Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de Niagara$15K
- Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de Niagara$6,000
- Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de Niagara$5,853
- Youth and Philanthropy Initiative Canada/Initiative Canada Jeunesse et Philanthropie$5,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$4,888
- Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de Niagara$3,696
- The Ontario Paper Thorold Foundation$3,000
- The Ontario Paper Thorold Foundation$3,000
- Christian Stewardship Services$2,800
- Women's Place (ST Catharines & District) Inc$2,500
- Vineland Station Pastoral Charge$2,404
- Covenant Christian Reformed Church of ST. Catharines$2,119
- Aqueduct Foundation$1,745
- Doane Grant Thornton Foundation$1,500
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$1,380
- Knox Presbyterian Church$1,063
- Rotary Club of ST Catherines South Charitable Trust$1,000
- Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de Niagara$1,000
- The Full Gospel Church of Niagara$948
- Abundance Canada$500
- Niagara Region Police Association Charitable Fund$500
- Silver Spire United Church$500
- The Synod of the Diocese of Niagara$325
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,99917 positions
- $1–39,9998 positions
- Permanent full-time positions27
- Total compensation, all staff$1.5M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Aradhana (alu) McCabe (director); Laura Pychel (director); David Bowman (secretary); Bryon Johnston (vice president); Andrea Mannell (director); Derek Ali (president); Ian Matthews (director); April-Dawn Blackwell (director); Noah Bruce (treasurer); Sara Prince (past president); Kate Fish (director); Ronald Hong (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Bethlehem Housing and Support Services’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 121926547RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.