Community Living Hamilton
Publicly funded institution · Hamilton, Ontario · BN 108083791RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($15,851,267) as filed with the CRA.
Community Living Hamilton is a charitable organization based in Hamilton, Ontario, classified by the CRA under core health care. 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 $16.2M in revenue and $15.9M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 85% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 8 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $51K.
Compared with 538 health institutions 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 lower than 100% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 141 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $500 in 2024, the largest being $500 to The Mohawk College Foundation. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
Community Living Hamilton is an organization providing services and supports to individuals with an intellectual disability and their families. Services include: Community Participation Leisure and Recreation Respite Employment Residential Special Needs Resourcing - Child Care Supports for Kids.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $16.2M | $15.9M | $14.1M | $0 | — | $5.6M |
| 2023 | $16M | $16.1M | $14.3M | $0 | $0 | $5.3M |
| 2022 | $16.6M | $15.1M | $13.5M | $0 | $0 | $5.4M |
| 2021 | $14.8M | $14.7M | $12.8M | $0 | $80K | $3.9M |
| 2020 | $15.3M | $15.2M | — | — | $500 | $3.9M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $500 to 1 qualified donee:
Received $51K from 8 charities:
- United Way Golden Horseshoe$45K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$2,449
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,456
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$560
- National Steel Car Limited Employees Charitable Donation Fund$500
- Canadahelps Canadon$414
- Hamilton Community Foundation$343
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$77
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- $40,000–79,9996 positions
- Permanent full-time positions141
- Total compensation, all staff$12.2M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Joe Obermeyer (president); Maggie Gallagher (secretary); Brad Pugh (vice chair); Careen Jones (director); Vimal Vyas (director); Heather Swartz (director); Jill Randall (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Community Living Hamilton’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 108083791RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.