My Friend's House Collingwood Crisis Centre

My Friend's House Collingwood Crisis Centre is a charitable organization based in Collingwood, 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 $2M in revenue and $1.7M in expenditures.

Its funding that year was roughly 39% from donations, 52% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 31 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $851K.

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 15% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 76% of that peer group. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 14 permanent full-time positions.

Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.1M in 2020 to $2M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.