Community Advocacy & Legal Centre
Publicly funded institution · Belleville, Ontario · BN 124644121RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,024,921) as filed with the CRA.
Community Advocacy & Legal Centre is a charitable organization based in Belleville, Ontario, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. 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 $2M in revenue and $2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 95% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2023, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $72.
Compared with 829 community-service institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 74% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 13 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Access to Justice legal internship funds to be used to hire a person to carry out legal education.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2M | $2M | $1.9M | — | — | $211K |
| 2023 | $2.1M | $2.1M | $2M | — | — | $230K |
| 2022 | $1.8M | $1.8M | $1.7M | — | — | $196K |
| 2021 | $1.8M | $1.7M | $1.6M | — | — | $238K |
| 2020 | $1.8M | $1.7M | $1.6M | — | — | $162K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2023
Received $72 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9995 positions
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions13
- Total compensation, all staff$1.5M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Rick Helman (treasurer); Peter Kerr (director); Steve Van de Hoef (chairperson); Morgan Foran (secretary); Wendy Gale (director); Samantha Kompa (vice chairperson); Peter Dudding (director); Jennifer May-Anderson (director); Petra Lepage (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Community Advocacy & Legal Centre’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 124644121RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.