Helping Hands Street Mission
Charitable organization · Hamilton, Ontario · BN 853550820RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($383,883) as filed with the CRA.
Helping Hands Street Mission 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 $781K in revenue and $384K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 61% from donations, 33% from other charities. In 2024, 31 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $303K.
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 8% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (4 positions in that band). The charity reported 4 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $149K in 2020 to $781K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
Advancing religion by providing spiritual counselling; relieving poverty by operating a not- for-profit store and a mobile support service providing food clothing and other basic necessities to the poor.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $781K | $384K | $146K | $37K | — | $99K |
| 2023 | $309K | $301K | $168K | $29K | — | $79K |
| 2022 | $193K | $198K | $140K | $21K | — | $73K |
| 2021 | $131K | $142K | $65K | — | — | $78K |
| 2020 | $149K | $103K | $61K | $4,535 | — | $89K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $303K from 31 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$75K
- Canadahelps Canadon$75K
- Blue Sea Philanthropy Inc.$63K
- West Highland Fellowship Baptist Church$25K
- The Meeting House Church Family$7,400
- The Canadian Reformed Church of Burlington South$7,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$6,141
- Sam and Roma Mercanti Foundation$6,000
- Grace Valley Church (Dundas)$5,520
- Forestview Community Church Grimsby Ontario$4,650
- Hamilton-Wentworth Regional Police Employees Charity Trust Project Concern$3,750
- Christian Stewardship Services$3,722
- Rehoboth United Reformed Church of Hamilton$3,683
- Immanuel Christian Reformed Church of Hamilton$3,309
- Meadowlands Fellowship Christian Reformed Church$2,818
- Canadian National Christian Foundation$2,000
- Mount Hamilton Baptist Church$1,400
- Calvin (dundas) Christian Reformed Church$1,349
- Mercy Christian Church$1,222
- Caledonia Baptist Church$1,200
- ST John United Church$1,000
- New City Church$842
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$600
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$486
- East Hamilton Spiritual Church$300
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions4
- Total compensation, all staff$226K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Phil Beck (chair); Jessica Koning (secretary); Lynn Bruulsema (member); Gordon Hornsveld (treasurer); Sarah Cimpello (member); Enzo Guerra (member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Helping Hands Street Mission’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 853550820RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.