Matthew House Refugee Services - Toronto
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 891152944RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,293,555) as filed with the CRA.
Matthew House Refugee Services - Toronto is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.1M in revenue and $1.3M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 37% from donations, 5% from government, 26% from other charities. In 2024, 48 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $567K.
Compared with 1,125 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 52% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 6 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
Our primary goal is to restore refugees' dignity by providingshelter and support in a welcoming home-like setting. Weensure that their individual needs are met. We provideemotional and physical support to empower residents to healfrom their journey and establish new lives in canada ourservices are offered in english & french as well as nativelanguages. We offer orientation to toronto with things likeopening a bank account and enrolling in school. We have onereception house and four long-term transition homes whereadditional care and support are provided. We support andmentor youth through th…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.1M | $1.3M | $1.1M | $21K | — | $2.4M |
| 2023 | $1.4M | $1.2M | $871K | $78K | — | $2.6M |
| 2022 | $1.1M | $1.1M | $890K | $76K | — | $2.5M |
| 2021 | $1.1M | $939K | $803K | $66K | — | $2.4M |
| 2020 | $920K | $761K | $654K | $41K | — | $2.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $567K from 48 charities:
- FCJ Refugee Centre$110K
- Mariann Trust$110K
- Link Charity Canada Inc$79K
- Selah Charitable Trust$33K
- Canadahelps Canadon$28K
- Canadahelps Canadon$28K
- Chartwell Baptist Church$20K
- Peoples Ministries Inc.$16K
- Toronto Foundation$13K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$12K
- The Halatsis Family Foundation$10K
- The Church of The Torontonians$10K
- North York (chinese) Baptist Church$10K
- The Church of ST Clement Eglinton$8,000
- Walmer Road Baptist Church$7,500
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$6,500
- Scarborough Chinese Baptist Church$6,075
- Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto$5,000
- Giselle Foundation$5,000
- Erwin Taylor Charitable Foundation$5,000
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$5,000
- Malvern Christian Assembly$4,500
- Kingsway Baptist Church$3,000
- BenefAction Foundation$3,000
- The Newall Family Foundation$2,500
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9994 positions
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions6
- Total compensation, all staff$801K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Bisi Adebayo (board member); Ulf Bergner (board member); Philip Donne (board member); Steve Shepherd (board member); Gregory Smith (director); Jacky Tuinstra (executive director); Ryan Wagner (board member); Anne Woolger (board member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Matthew House Refugee Services - Toronto’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 891152944RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.