Housing Help Centre for Hamilton-Wentworth
Publicly funded institution · Hamilton, Ontario · BN 129298444RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($6,705,362) as filed with the CRA.
Housing Help Centre for Hamilton-Wentworth is a charitable organization based in Hamilton, 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 $6.8M in revenue and $6.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 100% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $54K.
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 63% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 80% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 26 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $500 in 2024, the largest being $500 to Unifor Social Justice Fund/Le fonds de justice sociale d'Unifor. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
Housing help centre - hamilton and area (the 'centre') is a non-profit social service agency that has acted as a portal to housing services since 1988. The centre provides information advocacy and support to people who need housing especially people with low income and people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. The centre facilitates the distribution of government funding to those at risk and/or their landlords and creditors. The centre also facilitates youth trusteeship distributions.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $6.8M | $6.7M | $6.2M | $130 | $500 | $1M |
| 2023 | $6.5M | $6.4M | $5.9M | $141 | $500 | $965K |
| 2022 | $5.4M | $5.3M | $4.8M | $93 | $500 | $877K |
| 2021 | $4.1M | $4.1M | $3.5M | $151 | $1,000 | $780K |
| 2020 | $5.3M | $5.2M | $4.7M | $121 | $1,000 | $724K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $500 to 1 qualified donee:
Received $54K from 2 charities:
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
- $40,000–79,9999 positions
- Permanent full-time positions26
- Total compensation, all staff$1.2M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Amanda Difalco (director); Peter Dunn (director); Larry Huibers (executive director); Karen Leslie (director); Linda Moordian (chair); Susan Muma (director); Bas Van Berkel (director); Joe Xamin (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Housing Help Centre for Hamilton-Wentworth’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 129298444RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.