City Kidz Ministry
Charitable organization · Hamilton, Ontario · BN 894982479RR0001 · Support of Religion · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,514,317) as filed with the CRA.
City Kidz Ministry is a charitable organization based in Hamilton, Ontario, classified by the CRA under support of religion. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $2.6M in revenue and $2.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 71% from donations, 23% from other charities. In 2024, 62 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $633K.
Compared with 2,238 religious charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 32% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 86% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 22 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 9 qualified donees totalling $9,375 in 2024, the largest being $2,250 to Liberty for Youth. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 16 names.
In its own words
CityKidz exists to increase resiliency and inspire big dreams for Canadian children living in low-income communities by providing inspirational experiences and nurturing personal relationship one child at a time. Addressed by mission through child focused programs which impact over 1 200 children each week in Hamilton Ontario alone. These programs include weekly home visits to every one of the children on the active roster and two additional fast paced values based programs - one for children aged 6-11 and the second for children aged 12-17. Additional projects which support our mission inc…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.6M | $2.5M | $2.1M | $297K | $9,375 | $2.4M |
| 2023 | $2.3M | $2.4M | $2M | $291K | $21K | $2.3M |
| 2022 | $2.8M | $2.5M | $2.1M | $236K | $19K | $2.5M |
| 2021 | $2.5M | $2.4M | $2M | $184K | $19K | $2.2M |
| 2020 | $2.6M | $2.1M | $1.7M | $147K | $19K | $2.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $9,375 to 9 qualified donees:
- Liberty for Youth$2,250
- Crossfire Assembly$1,875
- Charity of Hope$1,500
- Bethany Gospel Chapel of Hamilton$1,500
- Welcome Inn Community Centre of Hamilton$900
- Desert Stream Christian Fellowship$750
- The Governing Council of the Salvation Army in Canada/conseil de Direction de l'Armée du Salut du Canada$300
- The Hamilton Dream Center$150
- Dundas Youth Chaplaincy$150
Received $633K from 62 charities:
- GiftPact Foundation Inc.$200K
- The Freeburne Banting Foundation$100K
- Weston Family Foundation$50K
- Hamilton Community Foundation$31K
- The Anthony G. DiCenzo Foundation$25K
- Mackenzie Investments Charitable Foundation$20K
- Charity of Hope$15K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$15K
- Canadahelps Canadon$15K
- The Allen and Milli Gould Family Foundation$10K
- Sam and Roma Mercanti Foundation$10K
- Aqueduct Foundation$10K
- The Graham Family Foundation$10K
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$10K
- The McKeil Family Foundation$10K
- Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de Niagara$8,474
- The KPMG Foundation/la Fondation KPMG$7,500
- The Liuna Charitable Foundation$7,500
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$7,240
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$6,928
- Christian Stewardship Services$6,200
- United Way Golden Horseshoe$4,203
- Calvin (dundas) Christian Reformed Church$3,821
- Bethel Gospel Tabernacle (hamilton) Incorporated$3,600
- Barterpay It Forward Foundation$3,526
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9998 positions
- Permanent full-time positions22
- Total compensation, all staff$1.4M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Todd Bender (executive director); Laura Carmichael (associate executive director); Richard Bialachowski (director); Sera Filice (director); Laura Gillespie (director); David Marks (chair); Philip Dehm (director); Jennifer Liscombe (director); Santo Pasqua (director); Denise Minardi (director); Louise MacRae (vice chair); Naden Louis (director); Wendy Sherren (treasurer); Ngadi Lunguana (director); Peter Loukas (director); Etido Uhma (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from City Kidz Ministry’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 894982479RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.