Lutheran Community CARE Centre of Thunder Bay
Publicly funded institution · Thunder Bay, Ontario · BN 108087545RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($5,954,207) as filed with the CRA.
Lutheran Community CARE Centre of Thunder Bay is a charitable organization based in Thunder Bay, 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 $6M in revenue and $6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 96% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 11 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $47K.
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 96% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 92% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (10 positions in that band). The charity reported 57 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
To provide advocacy case management financial and support services to individuals with a developmental disability. To provide support services to seniors to maintain and enhance community living. To provide pastoral care to residents of long term care facilities and hospitals. To provide spiritual care referral and support for individuals living on the streets of thunder bay and in the homeless shelters.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $6M | $6M | $6M | $205 | — | $794K |
| 2023 | $9.5M | $9.5M | $9.5M | $3,084 | — | $729K |
| 2022 | $9.9M | $9.8M | $9.8M | $3,006 | — | $748K |
| 2021 | $7.2M | $7.2M | $7.2M | $1,519 | — | $704K |
| 2020 | $7.7M | $7.7M | $7.6M | $2,487 | — | $804K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $47K from 11 charities:
- Lutheran Church-Canada$20K
- Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Mission$10K
- Canadahelps Canadon$3,524
- Lappe Lutheran Church$3,025
- Calvary Lutheran Church$3,000
- Community Living Thunder Bay Foundation$2,222
- Our Saviour's Lutheran Church of Thunder Bay$2,100
- Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church$1,500
- Hilldale Lutheran Church$1,065
- Redeemer Lutheran Church$250
- Faith Lutheran Church$225
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,99910 positions
- Permanent full-time positions57
- Total compensation, all staff$4.9M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Rosalie Evans (director); Sharon Melville (vice president); Jim Minor (secretary); Brenda Rikkonen (director); Ron Bourret (director); Moira Coates (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Lutheran Community CARE Centre of Thunder Bay’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 108087545RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.