Building Bridges Erie Shores
Charitable organization · Leamington, Ontario · BN 801946054RR0001 · Supportive Health Care
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,183,142) as filed with the CRA.
Building Bridges Erie Shores is a charitable organization based in Leamington, Ontario, classified by the CRA under supportive health care. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $2.7M in revenue and $1.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 71% from donations, 5% from government, 5% from other charities. In 2024, 14 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $162K.
Compared with 453 health charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 74% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 93% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 8 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $987K in 2020 to $2.7M in 2024.
In its own words
Recreation Area (computer games leisure) a nightly meal showers laundry facilities homework area and Chapel services. Housing Supports Mental Health Supports Bursaries and entrepreneurial financial support
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.7M | $1.2M | $1.1M | $24K | $0 | $3.3M |
| 2023 | $1M | $885K | $779K | $8,622 | $5,750 | $1.8M |
| 2022 | $1M | $1.1M | $839K | $10K | — | $1.7M |
| 2021 | $1.4M | $861K | $639K | $7,044 | — | $1.8M |
| 2020 | $987K | $634K | $449K | $7,607 | — | $1.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $162K from 14 charities:
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$64K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$30K
- Meadow Brook Fellowship$25K
- BenefAction Foundation$10K
- The Halliday Foundation$10K
- Deer Run Church$10K
- Abundance Canada$5,250
- First Lutheran Church$2,000
- Gore Mutual Insurance Company Foundation$1,500
- The Foundation Office.ca$1,250
- Bethel Christian Church$1,000
- Leamington United Mennonite Church$1,000
- Ruthven Pastoral Charge$718
- Canadahelps Canadon$288
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
- $40,000–79,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions8
- Total compensation, all staff$650K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Building Bridges Erie Shores’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 801946054RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.