Northumberland Humane Society
Charitable organization · Cobourg, Ontario · BN 870609443RR0001 · Animal Welfare
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,161,726) as filed with the CRA.
Northumberland Humane Society is a charitable organization based in Cobourg, Ontario, classified by the CRA under animal welfare. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.5M in revenue and $1.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 31% from donations, 5% from government. In 2024, 12 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $181K.
Compared with 112 animal-welfare charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 86% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 15 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $873K in 2020 to $1.5M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
(1) charitable activities that the charity carries out on its own through employees volunteers or intermediaries and (2) qualifying disbursement that the charity makes through gifts to qualified donees or grants to non-qualified donees (grantees).
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.5M | $1.2M | $1.1M | $25K | — | $4.1M |
| 2023 | $1M | $958K | $842K | $16K | — | $3.8M |
| 2022 | $581K | $672K | $622K | $3,542 | — | $3M |
| 2021 | $920K | $491K | $420K | $12K | — | $3.2M |
| 2020 | $873K | $409K | $264K | $8,183 | — | $2.9M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $181K from 12 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$58K
- Canadahelps Canadon$58K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$57K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$2,231
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$2,000
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$1,401
- BenefAction Foundation$1,100
- Petsmart Charities of Canada$1,000
- R&M Lang Foundation$750
- United Way of Durham Region$488
- United Way of Greater Toronto$211
- My Tribute Gift Foundation—
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
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- $1–39,99911 positions
- Permanent full-time positions15
- Total compensation, all staff$591K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jason Schmidt (past-chair); Susan Edwards (chair); Carol Cameron (director); Sherry Smith (director); Veronica Marrott (vice-chair); Marilyn Lotton (secretary); Frank Mastinsek (past-chair); Denise O'Brien (director); Lauren Maclean (director); David Dexter (treasurer).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Northumberland Humane Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 870609443RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.