Dawn House Services and Housing for Women Inc.
Publicly funded institution · Kingston, Ontario · BN 107007981RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,522,226) as filed with the CRA.
Dawn House Services and Housing for Women Inc. is a charitable organization based in Kingston, 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 December 31, 2024, it reported $1.4M in revenue and $1.5M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 11% from donations, 67% from government, 6% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 13 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $129K.
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 58% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 13 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $357K in 2020 to $1.4M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
Dawn house services and housing for women inc. Provides programs to relieve poverty by providing emergency shelter clothing food and other basic necessities to women in need with or without children an by establishing operating and maintaining housing below market rent and by providing counselling and other programs.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.4M | $1.5M | $1.4M | $15K | — | $949K |
| 2023 | $1.6M | $1.2M | $1.1M | $3,774 | — | $1.1M |
| 2022 | $534K | $526K | $456K | $3,030 | — | $727K |
| 2021 | $505K | $370K | $324K | $4,305 | — | $719K |
| 2020 | $357K | $386K | $321K | — | — | $584K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $129K from 13 charities:
- United Way of Kingston Frontenac Lennox & Addington$43K
- Canadahelps Canadon$36K
- Canadahelps Canadon$36K
- Abundance Canada$10K
- BenefAction Foundation$1,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$645
- ST. Mark's Anglican Church Barriefield$500
- Crossroads United Church$500
- Cooke's-Portsmouth Pastoral Charge$200
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$126
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$58
- Congregation of Notre Dame Visitation Province Inc.—
- Religious Hospitallers of ST-Joseph Amherstview Ontario—
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 positions13
- Total compensation, all staff$1.1M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Scott Whyte (chair); Matt Covin (vice chair); Bradley Brooker (treasurer); Lynne McMullan (director); Vanessa Pizzanato (director); Sarah Forsyth (director); Amanda Collins (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Dawn House Services and Housing for Women Inc.’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 107007981RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.