Mission Services of Hamilton Inc.
Charitable organization · Hamilton, Ontario · BN 119043206RR0001 · Support of Religion · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($12,683,122) as filed with the CRA.
Mission Services of Hamilton Inc. is a charitable organization based in Hamilton, Ontario, classified by the CRA under support of religion. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $15.8M in revenue and $12.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 30% from donations, 50% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 67 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $4.7M.
Compared with 158 religious charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 37% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (5 positions in that band). The charity reported 133 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $7.6M in 2020 to $15.8M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
Women’s and men’s services – providing safety shelter meals guidance and transitional help for women and men who are abused homeless or subject to domestic violence addictions services – programs for substance abuse recovery counseling community services – food bank community kitchen youth programs christmas care hampers and financial management services.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $15.8M | $12.7M | $10.7M | $943K | — | $8.2M |
| 2023 | $12.1M | $12.2M | $10.3M | $906K | — | $5.1M |
| 2022 | $12.6M | $11.8M | $10M | $939K | — | $5.2M |
| 2021 | $11M | $10.1M | $8.5M | $779K | — | $4.8M |
| 2020 | $7.6M | $7.4M | $6M | $768K | — | $3.9M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $4.7M from 67 charities:
- Greater Hamilton Food Share$4.1M
- The Freeburne Banting Foundation$200K
- Hamilton Community Foundation$68K
- Canadahelps Canadon$67K
- Canadahelps Canadon$67K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$50K
- Aqueduct Foundation$30K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$20K
- RBC Foundation$20K
- The Masonic Foundation of Ontario$17K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$13K
- Fragrance Foundation$10K
- The Doug Lamon Foundation$10K
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$9,797
- The Ron and Nancy Clark Foundation$8,500
- Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de Niagara$8,474
- Shoppers Foundation for Women's Health$6,010
- Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph in Canada$5,000
- The Guelph Community Foundation$5,000
- Immanuel Christian Reformed Church of Hamilton$4,096
- The Law Society Foundation$3,600
- Peoples Church Hamilton$3,300
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$3,174
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$2,700
- The Hensen Foundation$2,500
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9995 positions
- $40,000–79,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions133
- Total compensation, all staff$8.9M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Sheila Lipske (chair); Monique Alderman (vice chair); Martin Maretzki (treasurer/secretary); Imran Kamal (director); Jo-Anne Kershaw (director); Erica Morton (director); Katherine Antoniuk (director); Paul Sparks (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Mission Services of Hamilton Inc.’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119043206RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.