Habitat for Humanity Waterloo Region Inc
Charitable organization · Waterloo, Ontario · BN 133293928RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($4,401,055) as filed with the CRA.
Habitat for Humanity Waterloo Region Inc is a charitable organization based in Waterloo, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $4.7M in revenue and $4.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 26% from donations. In 2024, 20 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $654K.
Compared with 1,125 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 5% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 22 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $20K in 2024, the largest being $20K to Habitat for Humanity Canada/habitat pour l'Humanité Canada. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 15 names.
In its own words
Construction of homes sold to lower income families. Provision of interest-free mortgages to the families who purchase the homes. Homes are built in partnership with the families who must complete 500 volunteer hours. Monthly volunteer labour is used in construction of the homes. We also operate two restores (waterloo and cambridge on) which sell donated goods to the general public.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.7M | $4.4M | $1.7M | $243K | $20K | $12.1M |
| 2023 | $5.6M | $5.4M | $3M | $221K | $12K | $11.8M |
| 2022 | $5.2M | $4M | $2M | $370K | $12K | $11.6M |
| 2021 | $5M | $3.6M | $159K | $408K | $21K | $10.4M |
| 2020 | $3.9M | $3.6M | $1.7M | $434K | $15K | $8.9M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $20K to 1 qualified donee:
Received $654K from 20 charities:
- Habitat for Humanity Canada/habitat pour l'Humanité Canada$259K
- Abundance Canada$124K
- Canadahelps Canadon$71K
- Canadahelps Canadon$71K
- Waterloo Region Community Foundation$50K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$17K
- Canado Foundation$17K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$10K
- United Way Waterloo Region Communities$10K
- The Peter Gilgan Foundation$10K
- The Ross and Doris Dixon Charitable Foundation$6,000
- Charitus$5,000
- Doane Grant Thornton Foundation$1,500
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,106
- Calvary Memorial United Church$500
- BenefAction Foundation$250
- Calvin Presbyterian Church$120
- Mount Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church of Waterloo$85
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$50
- My Tribute Gift Foundation—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9996 positions
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions22
- Total compensation, all staff$2M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Debbie Adare (director); Deb Bergy (secretary); Carl Coelho (director); Mark Crowell (director); Kristy Guthrie (director); Leeann Hundt (director); David Lin (treasurer); Rebecca Little (director); Sarah McLellan (chair president); Russ Parnell (vice chair); Rebecca Petricievic (director); Tim Schill (director); Jason Simon (director); Roberto Villamar (director); Stephanie Whitney (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Habitat for Humanity Waterloo Region Inc’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 133293928RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.