Family Respite Services (windsor Essex)
Publicly funded institution · Windsor, Ontario · BN 118904887RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($6,164,514) as filed with the CRA.
Family Respite Services (windsor Essex) is a charitable organization based in Windsor, 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 $6M in revenue and $6.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 53% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 5 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $28K.
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 57% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 89% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 195 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
To provide relief and support to families who have children with disabilities.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $6M | $6.2M | $5.6M | $234K | $0 | $1.2M |
| 2023 | $6M | $6.2M | $5.4M | $130K | — | $1.3M |
| 2022 | $5.4M | $5.2M | $3.8M | $28K | — | $1.5M |
| 2021 | $4.9M | $4.8M | $4M | $489K | — | $1.2M |
| 2020 | $4.5M | $4.4M | — | $193K | — | $1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $28K from 5 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
- $40,000–79,9999 positions
- Permanent full-time positions195
- Total compensation, all staff$2.9M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Danielle Poirier (chair person); Justine Dandford (director); Janet Mullin (director); Laurie Tiegs (vice chair); Luann Kapasi (director); Reem Al-Maghazachi (director); Catharine Shanahan (executive director); Anna Mijovcic (director); Pam Skillings (director); Sonia Bajaj (treasurer); Chris Moore (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Family Respite Services (windsor Essex)’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118904887RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.