Distress Centre Halton
Publicly funded institution · Oakville, Ontario · BN 107790628RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($560,833) as filed with the CRA.
Distress Centre Halton is a charitable organization based in Oakville, 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 $570K in revenue and $561K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 9% from donations, 53% from government, 27% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 7 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $264K.
Compared with 1,890 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 56% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 6 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $284K in 2020 to $570K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
Distress centre halton provides a free 24-hhour phone support including support for crisis intervention telecheck line (an outbound program available to anyone of any age in need of a prearranged supportive call) and volunteer support to crisis services canada's national suicide prevention service.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $570K | $561K | $495K | — | — | $328K |
| 2023 | $547K | $546K | $494K | $125 | — | $319K |
| 2022 | $588K | $483K | $420K | $568 | — | $320K |
| 2021 | $429K | $289K | $248K | $1,508 | — | $213K |
| 2020 | $284K | $268K | $229K | $689 | — | $73K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $264K from 7 charities:
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
- $40,000–79,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions6
- Total compensation, all staff$382K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Craig Redick (secretary); Richard Darjes (treasurer); Dara Eisner Clancy (executive director); Feeroza Suchak (director); Gail Cartwright (chair); Jodi Dwyer (director); Diane Woodall (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Distress Centre Halton’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 107790628RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.