Margaret's Housing and Community Support Services Inc.
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 118890391RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($6,486,881) as filed with the CRA.
Margaret's Housing and Community Support Services Inc. is a charitable organization based in Toronto, 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 $6.7M in revenue and $6.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 82% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 15 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $513K.
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 37% 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 26 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
High support residential program for women with mental health issues supportive counseling crisis intervention short-term crisis beds fitness program community dining. Mental heath & justice program individual seniors support program drop in program for homeless respite service 24/7 city supporting housing city wrap around and poes – employment programs systems navigation program
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $6.7M | $6.5M | $5.6M | — | — | $19.6M |
| 2023 | $6.7M | $6.5M | $5.6M | $581 | — | $7.5M |
| 2022 | $5.9M | $5.7M | $4.9M | $16K | — | $7.3M |
| 2021 | $6.6M | $6.3M | $5.9M | $33K | — | $4.3M |
| 2020 | $6.5M | $6.3M | $5.9M | $83K | — | $6.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $513K from 15 charities:
- Daily Bread Food Bank$235K
- United Way of Greater Toronto$130K
- Sarah & Cary Lavine Family Foundation$75K
- George and Helen Vari Foundation$20K
- M.E.H. Foundation$20K
- Canadahelps Canadon$10K
- Aqueduct Foundation$10K
- CHUM Charitable Foundation$5,000
- Mazon Canada$2,700
- Toronto Foundation$2,000
- Card for Change$1,250
- Conam Charitable Foundation$1,000
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$807
- The Generalate of the Sisters of the Precious Blood$250
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$50
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$4M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Katie Heelis (chair); Luke Doherty (vice chair); Daniel Atkinson (treasurer); Jasmine Hermans (director); Noelle Richardson (director); Don Locke (director); Christopher Gordon (director); Saad Minhas (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Margaret's Housing and Community Support Services Inc.’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118890391RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.