La Mission St-Michael / St. Michael's Mission
Publicly funded institution · Montreal, Quebec · BN 851763417RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,193,513) as filed with the CRA.
La Mission St-Michael / St. Michael's Mission is a charitable organization based in Montreal, Quebec, 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 December 31, 2024, it reported $1.7M in revenue and $1.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 7% from donations, 76% from government, 17% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 21 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $298K.
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 83% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (7 positions in that band). The charity reported 12 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $603K in 2020 to $1.7M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
The st. Michael's mission provides free food and clothing to a multilingual multicultural homeless clientele. It also provides shower facilities and hygiene items to those in need. The mission offers crisis intervention access to a nurse and social worker as well as assistance in the management of their personal finances. The mission offers art classes and poetry readings in order to reduce the social isolation of the impoverished. It offers solutions and support in a safe invironment helping those in need with dignity and respect
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.7M | $1.2M | $1.1M | — | — | $566K |
| 2023 | $471K | $756K | $665K | — | — | $1,062 |
| 2022 | $556K | $830K | $674K | $1,618 | — | $143K |
| 2021 | $673K | $603K | $556K | $1,649 | — | $560K |
| 2020 | $603K | $318K | $274K | $2,262 | — | $490K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $298K from 21 charities:
- Fondation Écho /echo Foundation$80K
- The George Hogg Family Foundation$70K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$45K
- Fondation de la famille Zeller$25K
- Eakin Family Foundation$20K
- Hylcan Foundation$15K
- Canadahelps Canadon$15K
- Montreal Foundation for Helping People in Need$9,000
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$5,900
- Edmund Wood Foundation$4,000
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$2,000
- The Church of ST Andrew and ST Paul$1,400
- Vancouver Foundation$1,350
- The Foundation of Greater Montreal$1,220
- Rachel Ship Foundation$1,150
- The Hay Foundation/la Fondation Hay$1,000
- United Way of Greater Toronto$750
- The Church of All Saints by the Lake$452
- ST-Philip's Church$351
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$134
- Anglican Parish of St-John the Evangelist$50
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9997 positions
- $1–39,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions12
- Total compensation, all staff$870K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Keith Schmidt (chair); Marlene Daley (secretary); Sharyn Lindover (treasurer); Kristine Star Gale (vice chair); Betty Grosz (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from La Mission St-Michael / St. Michael's Mission’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 851763417RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.