Luke's Place Support and Resource Centre for Women and Children
Publicly funded institution · Oshawa, Ontario · BN 887611218RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,555,670) as filed with the CRA.
Luke's Place Support and Resource Centre for Women and Children is a charitable organization based in Oshawa, 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 $2.7M in revenue and $2.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 95% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 11 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $82K.
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 86% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $120,000–159,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 24 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $955K in 2020 to $2.7M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
Luke's Place Support and Resource Center for Women and Children supports abused women and their children throughout the fmily law process and provide them and their communities with specialized resources about family law and woman abuse.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.7M | $2.6M | $2.5M | — | — | $609K |
| 2023 | $2.1M | $2M | $1.9M | $0 | — | $469K |
| 2022 | $1.4M | $1.3M | $1.2M | — | — | $376K |
| 2021 | $1.1M | $1.1M | $1M | — | — | $267K |
| 2020 | $955K | $904K | $797K | — | — | $227K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $82K from 11 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$25K
- Canadahelps Canadon$25K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$12K
- Calvin and Frances Hamm Foundation$11K
- Hallmark Giving$5,000
- Christ Memorial Church$2,000
- Faith United Church$1,750
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$698
- United Way of Greater Toronto$317
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$172
- Pickering Pastoral Charge$150
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9992 positions
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- $40,000–79,99919 positions
- Permanent full-time positions24
- Total compensation, all staff$1.6M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Aparna Dixit (past president); Frances Wood (president); Kimberley Gavan (director); Mazie MacDonald (treasurer); Rebecca Boyd (director); Ruth Chun (director); Donna Babbs (secretary); Courtney Sebu (director); Carol Barkwell (executive director); Susan Talmey (director of finance).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Luke's Place Support and Resource Centre for Women and Children’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 887611218RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.