Blue Water Rest Home
Publicly funded institution · Zurich, Ontario · BN 106799067RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($8,578,093) as filed with the CRA.
Blue Water Rest Home is a charitable organization based in Zurich, 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 $8.6M in revenue and $8.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 74% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $3,292.
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 96% of peers.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
Blue Water Rest Home(BWRH) provides 24/7 care and services to our residents as well as shelter for low and middle income seniors. BWRH operates a 65 bed charitable long-term care home and we manage 35 units of one-bedroom apartments and 2 units of two bedroom apartments. We are an approved Community Supper Services agency and provide Meals on Wheels Community Wellness Community Exercise and Falls Prevention programs and Transportation programs in the community to enable seniors to stay in their home with supports.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $8.6M | $8.6M | $8.6M | — | — | $7.7M |
| 2023 | $8.3M | $8.1M | $8.1M | — | — | $7.6M |
| 2022 | $8M | $8.1M | $8.1M | — | — | $7.4M |
| 2021 | $7.3M | $7.1M | $7.1M | — | — | $7.4M |
| 2020 | $7M | $6.6M | $6.6M | — | — | $7.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $3,292 from 2 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Charlene Oesch (chair); Doug Kyle (vice chair); Angie Dunn (chief executive officer); Lynn Wareing (director); John Becker (treasurer); Dianne Loerchner (secretary); Sandra Shaw (director); Clasina DeBont (director); Dianne Dewys (director); Jim Hoffman (director); Doris Wragg (director); Michael Tieman (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Blue Water Rest Home’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 106799067RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.