Cornerstone Family Violence Prevention Centre
Publicly funded institution · Cobourg, Ontario · BN 119302289RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,395,341) as filed with the CRA.
Cornerstone Family Violence Prevention Centre is a charitable organization based in Cobourg, 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 $2.4M in revenue and $2.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 12% from donations, 74% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 15 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $79K.
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 46% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (4 positions in that band). The charity reported 22 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
Cornerstone's shelter is staffed 24 hours a day and provides a safe compassionate home-like environment for women and children who have experienced family violence. We provide accessible and best practice modeled programs and services. Services include crisis counselling safety planning housing support referrals family court support transitional support child witness programming and prevention through education programming. Cornerstone is governed by a volunteer board of directors. Our volunteers also provide support through donation sorting reception support residential support an…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.4M | $2.4M | $2.1M | $112K | $0 | $3.3M |
| 2023 | $2.5M | $2.4M | $2.1M | $123K | — | $3.3M |
| 2022 | $2.3M | $2.2M | $1.9M | $137K | — | $3.1M |
| 2021 | $2.5M | $2.1M | $1.8M | $125K | — | $1.3M |
| 2020 | $2M | $1.8M | $1.6M | $109K | — | $841K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $79K from 15 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$21K
- Canadahelps Canadon$21K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$7,000
- Shoppers Foundation for Women's Health$6,135
- Hickey Family Foundation$6,000
- Canada Gives$5,200
- Burgundy Legacy Foundation$5,000
- Link Charity Canada Inc$2,570
- RBC Foundation$2,500
- Trinity-ST Andrew's United Church Brighton Pastoral Charge$1,500
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$1,335
- BenefAction Foundation$500
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$200
- Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire$100
- My Tribute Gift Foundation—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9994 positions
- $40,000–79,9996 positions
- Permanent full-time positions22
- Total compensation, all staff$1.6M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Reno Piccini (director); Jenica Nonnekes (director); Marilou Martin (director /chair); Barbara Goodwin (director/treasurer/secretary); Sara Thompson (director); Paul Vandegraff (director); Monika Turner (director); Tim Farquharson (director); Lindsey Edwards (director); Nicole Beatty (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Cornerstone Family Violence Prevention Centre’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119302289RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.