Blue Door Support Services
Publicly funded institution · East Gwillimbury, Ontario · BN 130571896RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($20,209,850) as filed with the CRA.
Blue Door Support Services is a charitable organization based in East Gwillimbury, 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 December 31, 2024, it reported $22.1M in revenue and $20.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 70% from government, 7% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 37 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $4.5M.
Compared with 427 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 99% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 85% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $160,000–199,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 123 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $6.1M in 2020 to $22.1M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
Blue door support services provides supportive housing for individuals and families experiencing homelessness which helps those who need a supportive independent living environment in order to transition into permanent housing. Blue door support services a trades-based pre-apprenticeship program that offers pathway classroom and hands-on training in order to offer participants a career pathway into skilled trades.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $22.1M | $20.2M | $21.8M | $254K | — | $3.5M |
| 2023 | $16.4M | $16M | $14.9M | $131K | — | $3.3M |
| 2022 | $11.8M | $11.2M | $10.9M | $11K | — | $2.6M |
| 2021 | $8.8M | $8.6M | $8.4M | $6,027 | — | $1.2M |
| 2020 | $6.1M | $6M | $5.5M | $2,047 | — | $592K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $4.5M from 37 charities:
- United Way of Greater Toronto$1.7M
- The Home Depot Canada Foundation$1.7M
- Pathy Family Foundation$300K
- Blue Sea Philanthropy Inc.$123K
- Hockey Helps the Homeless/hockey Aide les Sans-Abri$108K
- Aubrey & Marla Dan Foundation$100K
- RBC Foundation$90K
- Canadian Women's Foundation$75K
- J.P. Bickell Foundation$50K
- J.P. Bickell Foundation$50K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$44K
- The Charles H. Ivey Foundation$25K
- TELUS Friendly Future Foundation$20K
- The Home Depot Canada Foundation$17K
- Canadahelps Canadon$17K
- Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at Canada Inc.$15K
- Toronto Foundation$11K
- The Bridge a Markham Community Church$9,849
- The Home Depot Canada Foundation$9,514
- Toronto Christian Community Church$5,000
- The Guelph Community Foundation$5,000
- Vancouver Foundation$4,050
- ST Andrew's Presbyterian Church$2,533
- The Anderson Family Foundation$2,500
- Mazon Canada$2,500
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9992 positions
- $120,000–159,9993 positions
- $80,000–119,9996 positions
- Permanent full-time positions123
- Total compensation, all staff$7.9M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Albert Jones (treasurer); Chirag Bhatt (director); Michael Scarano (chair); Julie Ralph (secretary); Caroline Hunter (director); Denise Le Bel (director); Anika Mifsud (vice chair); David Rawcliffe (director); Vidia Dhanraj (director); Christopher Achkar (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Blue Door Support Services’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 130571896RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.