Mainstay Housing
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 119258440RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2021-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($18,170,048) as filed with the CRA.
Mainstay Housing is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. 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, 2021, it reported $21.8M in revenue and $18.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 68% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2023, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $114K.
Compared with 77 community-service institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 76% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 59 permanent full-time positions.
In its own words
Mainstay housing provides supportive housing for people with mental health and addictions issues. The board of directors is made of volunteers tenants and community representatives.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2021
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | $21.8M | $18.2M | $17.6M | — | — | $17.8M |
| 2020 | $16.5M | $16.6M | $15.9M | — | — | $14.7M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2023
Received $114K from 1 charity:
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
- $80,000–119,9996 positions
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions59
- Total compensation, all staff$4.4M
Schedule 3 of its 2021 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Mainstay Housing’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119258440RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.