Neighbours Community Homes
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 123109845RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($36,351,842) as filed with the CRA.
Neighbours Community Homes 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 $40M in revenue and $36.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 80% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 9 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $346K.
Compared with 427 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 96% 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 $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 120 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $11.5M in 2020 to $40M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
Houselink and Mainstay Community Housing provides supportive housing and supported housing programs to people with low income mental health and addictions issues and/or had been homeless. The Board of directors is made of community volunteers and tenants.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $40M | $36.4M | $36.4M | — | — | $42M |
| 2023 | $38.4M | $32.1M | $29.1M | $0 | — | $34.6M |
| 2022 | $34.2M | $29.8M | $27M | $0 | — | $26.9M |
| 2021 | $12.1M | $12.1M | $10.7M | $49K | — | $5.2M |
| 2020 | $11.5M | $11.4M | $10M | $53K | — | $0 |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $346K from 9 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9998 positions
- Permanent full-time positions120
- Total compensation, all staff$9.1M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Drew Baillie (board member); Philip Dufresne (board member); Leslie Gash (president); Andy Ip (board member); Stephen Rogers (vice-president); Gordon Singer (board member); Joann Sochor (treasurer); Gautam Mukherjee (secretary).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Neighbours Community Homes’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 123109845RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.