Good Shepherd Refuge Social Ministries
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 892508169RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($8,491,517) as filed with the CRA.
Good Shepherd Refuge Social Ministries is a charitable organization based in Toronto, 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 $8.8M in revenue and $8.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 31% from donations, 61% from government, 5% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 65 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $862K.
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 25% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 66 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 15 names.
In its own words
1) emergency and overnight shelter to 95 homeless men 2) daily drop-in providing snacks facilities 3) free clothing service 4) meal program serving approx. 1200 meals per day 5) medical clinic providing health care services for the homeless 6) pre and post addictions treatment program for 25 homeless men (drug & alcohol enrichment program) 7) crisis intervention and resettlement counseling 8) providing supportive housing residence for individuals living with hiv/aids-barret house 9) supportive housing residence for frail elderly formerly homeless men age 55 and up-st. Joseph's residence 10) p…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $8.8M | $8.5M | $7.1M | $736K | — | $14.1M |
| 2023 | $7.2M | $6.6M | $5.6M | $308K | — | $13.8M |
| 2022 | $7.9M | $5.8M | $5M | $279K | — | $13.4M |
| 2021 | $8.4M | $6.2M | $5.3M | $251K | — | $11.4M |
| 2020 | $6.3M | $6.5M | $5.1M | $334K | — | $9.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $862K from 65 charities:
- Daily Bread Food Bank$109K
- Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Toronto$95K
- Sharelife$95K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$63K
- Canadahelps Canadon$54K
- Canadahelps Canadon$54K
- Burgundy Legacy Foundation$50K
- Donald Bainbridge Family Foundation$50K
- The Bedolfe Foundation$35K
- Lamb Foundation$30K
- F. K. Morrow Foundation$25K
- The P & P Murray Foundation$20K
- Right To Food$15K
- Jilla & Robert Williams Foundation$10K
- Hospitaller Order Of St. John Of God Province Of The Good Shepherd In North America$10K
- Frederick and Douglas Dickson Memorial Foundation$10K
- The Muzzo Family Charitable Foundation$10K
- Lamb Foundation$10K
- Tony Cesaroni Family Foundation$10K
- The Di Marco Family Foundation$10K
- The Sisters of St. Joseph for the Diocese of Toronto in Upper Canada$6,000
- Canada Gives$6,000
- The Loretto Ladies' Colleges and Schools$5,200
- Abundance Canada$5,000
- Youth and Philanthropy Initiative Canada/Initiative Canada Jeunesse et Philanthropie$5,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- $40,000–79,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions66
- Total compensation, all staff$6.1M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Robert Graham (chairman of board); Stephen Hwang (vice chairman); Reginald Howson (director); Richard Macphee (director); Gordon Manion (director); Gina DI Lorenzo (director); Peter Prozanski (director); Matthew Mehrota (director); Edward Lynch (director); Kiaras Gharabaghi (director); Stephen Chu (director); Catherine Hutson (director); Alison Nankivell (director); Anthony Simone (director); Bruno Mandic (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Good Shepherd Refuge Social Ministries’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 892508169RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.