Choices Shelter and Support Services
Publicly funded institution · Orangeville, Ontario · BN 882525710RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($893,671) as filed with the CRA.
Choices Shelter and Support Services is a charitable organization based in Orangeville, 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 March 31, 2024, it reported $646K in revenue and $894K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 18% from donations, 70% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 13 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $73K.
Compared with 1,890 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 64% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (7 positions in that band). The charity reported 14 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $321K in 2020 to $646K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
1) Develop and promote community support for youth and men which will ensure their successful integration into the community as productive members 2) Provide emergency and transitional housing for homeless youth and men throughout Dufferin 3) Create awareness of support for homeless throughout Dufferin 4) Provide opportunities to develop life skills within the community through access to education and community support
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $646K | $894K | $807K | — | — | $687K |
| 2023 | $485K | $628K | $506K | — | — | $932K |
| 2022 | $1.9M | $1.5M | $1.4M | — | — | $1.1M |
| 2021 | $825K | $525K | $420K | — | — | $666K |
| 2020 | $321K | $477K | $381K | — | — | $365K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $73K from 13 charities:
- Beutel Goodman Charitable Foundation$25K
- Rotary Club of Orangeville Highlands Foundation$20K
- Canadahelps Canadon$9,144
- Dufferin Community Foundation$5,000
- The Home Depot Canada Foundation$4,721
- The Home Depot Canada Foundation$4,316
- Vancouver Foundation$2,700
- Faith Fellowship Church of Dufferin County$500
- Faith Fellowship Church of Dufferin County$500
- Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire$500
- Caledon Village Pastoral Charge$300
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$106
- Caledon Agricultural Society$100
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9997 positions
- $1–39,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions14
- Total compensation, all staff$717K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Shannon Gander (secretary); Randy Beyers (treasurer); Keith Ward (chair); Paul Charbonneau (director); Navdeep Gill (director); Christopher Russell (director); Judy Yack (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Choices Shelter and Support Services’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 882525710RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.