Emergency Support Committee for Refugees
Charitable organization · Hamilton, Ontario · BN 866975824RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($6,366) as filed with the CRA.
Emergency Support Committee for Refugees is a charitable organization based in Hamilton, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $5,448 in revenue and $6,366 in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 98% from donations. In 2024, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $296.
Compared with 2,855 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 38% of peers.
Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $9,790 in 2020 to $5,448 in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
Revolving loan program: to facilitate refugees immigrants and migrants to pay for permanent residents status applications family reunfications and to provide for emergency medical and other emergency costs. Loans go to those who have no other alternative source of funding
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $5,448 | $6,366 | $5,609 | — | — | $48K |
| 2023 | $5,448 | $6,366 | $5,609 | — | — | $48K |
| 2022 | $5,909 | $5,858 | $4,344 | — | — | $50K |
| 2021 | $9,224 | $6,884 | $6,237 | — | — | $50K |
| 2020 | $9,790 | $5,877 | $5,129 | — | — | $48K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $296 from 2 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Mary Anne Peters (secretary); Nora Melara Lopez (coordinator); Louise Philippe Lamarche (treasurer); Nataly Elizabeth Amaya (coordinator).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Emergency Support Committee for Refugees’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 866975824RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.