Homeward Family Shelter
Publicly funded institution · Scarborough, Ontario · BN 118962299RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,291,440) as filed with the CRA.
Homeward Family Shelter is a charitable organization based in Scarborough, Ontario, 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 $2.3M in revenue and $2.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 85% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 11 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $233K.
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 67% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 86% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 16 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
Temporary emergency shelter and support services housing advocacy information and referrals community education crisis intervention etc.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.3M | $2.3M | $2.1M | $121K | — | $765K |
| 2023 | $2.3M | $2.2M | $2.1M | $4,613 | — | $782K |
| 2022 | $2.4M | $2.3M | $2.1M | $4,454 | — | $678K |
| 2021 | $2.2M | $2.1M | $1.9M | $1,808 | — | $649K |
| 2020 | $2M | $1.9M | $1.8M | $8,225 | — | $540K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $233K from 11 charities:
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$122K
- Daily Bread Food Bank$56K
- Canadahelps Canadon$22K
- Canadahelps Canadon$22K
- Shoppers Foundation for Women's Health$4,820
- The BLG Foundation$2,500
- ST Mark's United Church$1,544
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$1,359
- United Way of Greater Toronto$1,046
- Rose Volunteers for Community Assistance$769
- Knox United Church$300
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
- $80,000–119,9994 positions
- $40,000–79,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions16
- Total compensation, all staff$1.5M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Agatha McPhee (chair); Brenda Reber (treasurer); Marsene Maloney (director); Marie Clarke - Walker (vice-chair); Lynette Temmerman (secretary); Mansoora Qaz (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Homeward Family Shelter’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118962299RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.