Durham Employment and Newcomer Centre
Publicly funded institution · Oshawa, Ontario · BN 136481033RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,160,627) as filed with the CRA.
Durham Employment and Newcomer Centre is a charitable organization based in Oshawa, 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 $3.1M in revenue and $3.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 99% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget.
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 82% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 41 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 13 names.
In its own words
The organization provides employment aid throughout the durham region. The organization is dedicated in assisting the unemployed and under-employed adult reach their employment goals by providing support and services without judgement such as career and employment counselling various in-house workshops support groups and rescources for job seekers the durham region unemployed help centre (druhc) undertakes as the lead agency of the pickering welcome centre and as an employment ontario employment services (eoes) provider. Namley reducing or removing barriers to employment for marginalized…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.1M | $3.2M | $3M | — | — | $876K |
| 2023 | $3M | $3.2M | $3M | — | — | $933K |
| 2022 | $3.4M | $2.9M | $2.8M | — | — | $1.1M |
| 2021 | $3.3M | $2.8M | — | — | — | $1.2M |
| 2020 | $3.5M | $3.1M | $3M | — | — | $1.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2022
Received $0 from 1 charity:
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 positions41
- Total compensation, all staff$2.1M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
William Harford (president); Nester Pidwerbecki (director); Ted Reczulski (director); David Crowe (director); Myrna Caverly (director); Bill Stratton (director); Jane Hurst (director); Doug Sanders (director); Jerry Conlin (director); Warren Young (director); Bill Sutton (director); Jeff Gray (director); John Brown (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Durham Employment and Newcomer Centre’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 136481033RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.