Cambridge Shelter Corporation
Publicly funded institution · Cambridge, Ontario · BN 890259419RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($4,325,503) as filed with the CRA.
Cambridge Shelter Corporation is a charitable organization based in Cambridge, 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 $4.7M in revenue and $4.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 80% from government, 6% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 24 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $518K.
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 80% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (3 positions in that band). The charity reported 48 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $2.8M in 2020 to $4.7M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
Provides the following services to the homeless: overnght shelter transitional supportive housing medical services food clothing furniture. Also provides a variety of programs including literacy counselling housing searcjes job searches. Advocates with social services courts and probation/parole on behalf of clients. Provides volunteer placements and job skills training
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.7M | $4.3M | $4.1M | $28K | — | $456K |
| 2023 | $4M | $3.9M | $3.6M | $8,433 | — | $243K |
| 2022 | $3.7M | $3.6M | $3.2M | $11K | — | $137K |
| 2021 | $3.3M | $3.1M | $2.7M | $19K | — | $54K |
| 2020 | $2.8M | $2.7M | $2.3M | $5,665 | — | -$139K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $518K from 24 charities:
- United Way Waterloo Region Communities$133K
- The Jim and Lorna Blair Charitable Foundation$115K
- Canadahelps Canadon$92K
- Canadahelps Canadon$92K
- Hockey Helps the Homeless/hockey Aide les Sans-Abri$50K
- Waterloo Region Community Foundation$9,500
- Hamilton Community Foundation$5,000
- Bridgeway Foundation$5,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$4,621
- Knox Preston Presbyterian Church$3,061
- Cedar Hill United Church$2,000
- Maranatha Christian Reformed Church of Cambridge$1,214
- Gore Mutual Insurance Company Foundation$1,200
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,000
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$1,000
- ST Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church$720
- The Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation of the Diocese of Hamilton in Ontario$710
- Trillium United Church$500
- Socks 4 Souls Canada Inc.$247
- Allen-Bradley Employees' Charitable Fund$222
- The First Seventh Day Baptist Church of Toronto$125
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$43
- My Tribute Gift Foundation—
- The Food Bank of Waterloo Region—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- $40,000–79,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions48
- Total compensation, all staff$1.9M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Roselyn McKay (member); Bob Howlson (chair); Erin Del (member); Marjorie-Ann Knight (member); David Hopkins (secretary); Danielle Roberts (treasurer); Scott Hebert (member); Amy Wells (member); Danielle Glendinning (member); James Butler (member); Madisson McKeller (member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Cambridge Shelter Corporation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 890259419RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.