Community CARE Concepts of Woolwich Wellesley & Wilmot Townships
Publicly funded institution · Elmira, Ontario · BN 108221540RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,433,045) as filed with the CRA.
Community CARE Concepts of Woolwich Wellesley & Wilmot Townships is a charitable organization based in Elmira, 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 $3.6M in revenue and $3.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 81% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 11 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $150K.
Compared with 1,618 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 93% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 15 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $2.1M in 2020 to $3.6M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
Meals on Wheels Homemaking Home Maintenance Practical In-home Support Friendly Visiting Home at Last Seniors Day Programs Transportation Congregate Dining Exercise Programs
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.6M | $3.4M | $3.4M | — | — | $364K |
| 2023 | $2.9M | $2.8M | $2.7M | — | — | $0 |
| 2022 | $2.5M | $2.4M | $2.4M | — | — | $0 |
| 2021 | $2.6M | $2.4M | $2.3M | — | — | $671K |
| 2020 | $2.1M | $2.1M | $2M | — | — | $476K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $150K from 11 charities:
- United Way Waterloo Region Communities$117K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$11K
- Canadahelps Canadon$5,766
- ST. James Lutheran Church$5,000
- Old Order Mennonite Conference$5,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$2,258
- Abundance Canada$2,200
- Trans Canada trail / Sentier transcanadien$1,250
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$500
- My Charity Fund$96
- My Tribute Gift Foundation—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9999 positions
- Permanent full-time positions15
- Total compensation, all staff$1.1M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Lynda Kohler (president); Gloria Carol Gregory (director); Shari Foster (director); Tracey Cronin (past president); Mavis Hicknell (secretary); Sue Koebel (director); Chad Powers (director); Jerry Scherrer (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Community CARE Concepts of Woolwich Wellesley & Wilmot Townships’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 108221540RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.