Helping Ourselves Through Peer Support & Employment
Publicly funded institution · Brantford, Ontario · BN 137146627RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($345,740) as filed with the CRA.
Helping Ourselves Through Peer Support & Employment is a charitable organization based in Brantford, Ontario, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. 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 $373K in revenue and $346K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 81% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $687.
Compared with 1,147 community-service institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 93% of peers.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
Peer support and leadership development for persons with serious mental illnesses. Gainful employment is offered through a cleaning business which developes employment related skills.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $373K | $346K | $346K | — | — | $117K |
| 2023 | $371K | $324K | $324K | — | — | $110K |
| 2022 | $369K | $338K | $338K | — | — | $87K |
| 2021 | $350K | $341K | $341K | — | — | $72K |
| 2020 | $373K | $327K | $327K | — | — | $65K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $687 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Total compensation, all staff$274K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
James Hladish (treasurer); Michelle Sanderson (secretary); Bill Baker (interim president); Kasia Chodyka (interim vice president); Ayoade Akande (director); Harleen Pandha (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Helping Ourselves Through Peer Support & Employment’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 137146627RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.