Central Station Education Initiative
Charitable organization · Welland, Ontario · BN 720134923RR0001 · Public Amenities · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($197,685) as filed with the CRA.
Central Station Education Initiative is a charitable organization based in Welland, Ontario, classified by the CRA under public amenities. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $53K in revenue and $198K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 48% from donations, 50% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $27K.
Compared with 2,652 public-amenity charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 28% of peers.
Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $189K in 2022 to $53K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
Central Station Education Initiative is a not-for-profit organization with the purpose to preserve and educate the public about the material and cultural history of the fire police paramedic and other emergency services in the Niagara Region.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2022–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $53K | $198K | $137K | — | — | — |
| 2023 | $136K | $177K | $174K | — | — | $247K |
| 2022 | $189K | $162K | $158K | — | — | — |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $27K from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Nora Reid (president); Claire Masswohl (director); Gilles Boisvert (treasurer); Timothy Cutler (director); Leslie Robichaud (director); Catherine Horvath (director); Anthony Dockrill (vice president); Stephanie Rose-Ann Mazza (secretary); Therese De Agazio (diretor); Peter Bryan (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Central Station Education Initiative’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 720134923RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.