Hamilton Right to Life
Charitable organization · Hamilton, Ontario · BN 118951862RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-04-30. Split of total expenditures ($220,258) as filed with the CRA.
Hamilton Right to Life is a charitable organization based in Hamilton, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending April 30, 2024, it reported $212K in revenue and $220K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 84% from donations. In 2024, 14 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $47K.
Compared with 2,470 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 27% of peers. The charity reported 2 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
Public education through advertising billboards radio ads mobile phone ads life chain march for life presentations by speakers videos exhibits coffee & dessert evenings fundraising dinner.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $212K | $220K | $151K | $47K | $15K | $252K |
| 2023 | $256K | $196K | $158K | $11K | — | $254K |
| 2022 | $159K | $114K | $81K | $10K | — | — |
| 2021 | $114K | $135K | $108K | $10K | — | $155K |
| 2020 | $158K | $119K | $75K | $11K | — | $176K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $47K from 14 charities:
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$12K
- Canadahelps Canadon$10K
- Hamilton Community Foundation$8,750
- The Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation of the Diocese of Hamilton in Ontario$5,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$3,018
- The Hensen Foundation$2,000
- Calvin (dundas) Christian Reformed Church$1,978
- The Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation of the Diocese of Hamilton in Ontario$1,000
- Maranatha Christian Reformed Church of York$942
- BenefAction Foundation$500
- V-Kol Media Ministries$500
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$295
- Christian Stewardship Services$216
- Mount Hope Community Christian Reformed Church$142
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Permanent full-time positions2
- Total compensation, all staff$53K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Theodore Slaman (chair); Dora Giammaria (chair); Daniel Shaw (secretary); Jerry Bekendam (director); Peter Boushy (director); Kimberley Drotar (director); Harvey Bailet (director); Jeffrey Mackness (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Hamilton Right to Life’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118951862RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.