Hopewell Support Services
Publicly funded institution · Guelph, Ontario · BN 131161986RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($9,585,968) as filed with the CRA.
Hopewell Support Services is a charitable organization based in Guelph, 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 $9.6M in revenue and $9.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 79% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 8 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $161K.
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 46% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 76 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $5.9M in 2020 to $9.6M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
Hopewell provides permanent residential respite and recreational services for individuals with developmental and physical challenges and complex needs. Hopewell operates one residential homes for children and adults who require total care 4 group homes for adults with behavioural challenges one respite home for children ages 6-18 yrs with behavioural challenges one respite home for adults with behavioural challenges and a fully accessible day and evening respite program for the special needs population of all ages.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $9.6M | $9.6M | $8.5M | $114K | — | $2M |
| 2023 | $8.4M | $8.5M | $7.7M | $106K | — | $1.9M |
| 2022 | $9M | $8.1M | $616K | $7.4M | — | $2M |
| 2021 | $8.4M | $7.5M | $7.2M | $3,460 | — | $1.1M |
| 2020 | $5.9M | $5.9M | $5.6M | $232 | — | $145K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $161K from 8 charities:
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$56K
- Canadahelps Canadon$30K
- Canadahelps Canadon$30K
- Mowbray and Doris Sifton Family Foundation$25K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$10K
- The Guelph Community Foundation$8,386
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$2,009
- The Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation of the Diocese of Hamilton in Ontario$835
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
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- $40,000–79,9996 positions
- Permanent full-time positions76
- Total compensation, all staff$6.5M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jon Christensen (chair); Laurie Iversen (vice chair); Jane Stamp (treasurer); Devlin Scanlon (secretary); Wendy Jespersen (director); Kimberley Floyd (director); Rosalind Gunn (director); Kasia Rusiniak (director); Peter Pickfield (director); Elizabeth Bowden (director); Charlie Spano (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Hopewell Support Services’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 131161986RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.