Home of the Guardian Angel
Publicly funded institution · Halifax, Nova Scotia · BN 118962166RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,135,135) as filed with the CRA.
Home of the Guardian Angel is a charitable organization based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, 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 $1.3M in revenue and $1.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 77% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 15 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $178K.
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 93% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (9 positions in that band). The charity reported 19 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $777K in 2020 to $1.3M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 14 names.
In its own words
We continue to opereate as a family reousrece centre offering pre/postnatal support parenting support doula services home daycare services cooking programs and childrents programs
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.3M | $1.1M | $1.1M | — | — | $590K |
| 2023 | $1.2M | $1M | $907K | — | — | $406K |
| 2022 | $1.1M | $1.4M | $865K | — | — | $298K |
| 2021 | $981K | $940K | $815K | — | — | $223K |
| 2020 | $777K | $782K | $657K | — | — | $185K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $178K from 15 charities:
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$61K
- Halifax Youth Foundation$23K
- Sisters of Charity Mount Saint Vincent$20K
- Black Family Foundation$18K
- Mental Health Foundation of Nova Scotia$18K
- Trust Under the Will of James Cosman$9,000
- The Christina and Hedley G. Ivany Charitable Foundation$8,000
- Loran Scholars Foundation$7,000
- Reachout Society for Humanitarian Aid$5,000
- The Community Foundation of Nova Scotia Society$5,000
- Canadahelps Canadon$3,400
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$424
- United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes$260
- Sisters of Charity - Caritas Retirement Centre$230
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$109
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9999 positions
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions19
- Total compensation, all staff$853K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Dinah Simmons (president); Lorraine D'Entremont (secretary); Christina Grace (board member); Jessica Howe (board member); Julia Lewis (board member); Sarah Maccallum (board member); Ronnie Macdonald (board member); Omotola Owoeye (treasurer); Jenn Robeson (board member); Claire Seremba (board member); Marney Steeves (vice president); Sharelyn Stone (executive director); Liping Wang (board member); Geri Woudstra (board member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Home of the Guardian Angel’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118962166RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.