Catholic Family Services of Durham
Charitable organization · Oshawa, Ontario · BN 106880057RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,903,825) as filed with the CRA.
Catholic Family Services of Durham is a charitable organization based in Oshawa, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $3M in revenue and $2.9M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 6% from donations, 43% from government, 37% from other charities. In 2024, 15 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.2M.
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 66% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (10 positions in that band). The charity reported 28 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.7M in 2020 to $3M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
Within the framework of Catholic values our mission is to strengthen the emotional and social functioning of individuals and families through counselling prevention and education. Our programs include: Individual couple and family counselling; transitional support; individual and group counselling for abused women and their children; counselling for adults and child victims of sexual assault; violence prevention programs for youth; education groups and seminars related to family life and living skills. These include parenting assisting adjustment through separation and loss e.g. grief se…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3M | $2.9M | $2.7M | $26K | — | $1.1M |
| 2023 | $2.7M | $2.7M | $2.5M | $30K | — | $1M |
| 2022 | $2.4M | $2.3M | $2.2M | $3,006 | — | $975K |
| 2021 | $1.9M | $1.8M | $1.8M | $2,047 | — | $416K |
| 2020 | $1.7M | $1.6M | $1.4M | $21K | — | $308K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $1.2M from 15 charities:
- Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Toronto$1.1M
- The Dunkley Charitable Foundation$25K
- United Way of Durham Region$20K
- Calvin and Frances Hamm Foundation$11K
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Canada$6,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$3,038
- Arbor Memorial Foundation$1,000
- CHUM Charitable Foundation$1,000
- King Street Community Church$800
- Canadahelps Canadon$721
- ST. Joseph's Council No. 6361 Charitable Welfare Trust$700
- Deer Creek Cares Charitable Foundation$500
- United Way of Greater Toronto$322
- Neil Murkar Charitable Foundation—
- My Tribute Gift Foundation—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,99910 positions
- Permanent full-time positions28
- Total compensation, all staff$2M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Janine Bowyer (chair); Henry Remiz (secretary); Marc Poupart (treasurer); Alida Brydon (vice chair); Monique Forster (director); Chris Leahy (director); Ann Marie Whitney (director); Elizabeth Pierce (executive director); Susan Talmey (director of finance); Perpetual Karume (director); Rosemary Leclair (director); Fredrick Page (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Catholic Family Services of Durham’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 106880057RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.