Metro Non-Profit Housing Association
Publicly funded institution · Halifax, Nova Scotia · BN 132671066RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,850,236) as filed with the CRA.
Metro Non-Profit Housing Association is a charitable organization based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, 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 December 31, 2024, it reported $4.2M in revenue and $1.9M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 52% from government, 20% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 4 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $43K.
Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 34 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.2M in 2020 to $4.2M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
Metro non profit housing association (operating as welcome housing) is a halifax & dartmouth based organization who’s mission is to help individuals who have become or are at risk of becoming homeless. Their mission is to assist low income adults with housing by providing affordable stable long-term housing with built in supports. The organization also provides housing supports outside of their own tenants working with partners across ns to support those living rough with the end goal of finding permanent housing.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.2M | $1.9M | — | — | — | $1.5M |
| 2023 | $2.5M | $1.1M | $1M | — | — | $1M |
| 2022 | $2.2M | $2M | $2M | — | — | $915K |
| 2021 | $1.5M | $1.4M | $1.3M | — | — | $729K |
| 2020 | $1.2M | $1.2M | $1.1M | — | — | $657K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $43K from 4 charities:
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
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,99918 positions
- $1–39,99911 positions
- Permanent full-time positions34
- Total compensation, all staff$1.6M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Suzanne Drapeau (board chair); Sarah Kirby (director); Fola Adeleke (secretary); Enkeledja Little (director); Zahra Take.
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Metro Non-Profit Housing Association’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 132671066RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.