Open Door Womens CARE Centre
Charitable organization · Halifax, Nova Scotia · BN 107461485RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($242,253) as filed with the CRA.
Open Door Womens CARE Centre is a charitable organization based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $177K in revenue and $242K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 74% from donations, 18% from other charities. In 2024, 20 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $90K.
Compared with 2,470 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 4% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $40,000–79,999 range. The charity reported 1 permanent full-time position.
It reported gifts to 2 qualified donees totalling $2,400 in 2024, the largest being $1,200 to Campaign Life Coalition. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $284K in 2020 to $177K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
1) pregnancy services pregnancy loss services parenting support services sexual exploitation support services spiritual support services volunteer training. 2) gifts to qualified donees in support of pregnancy parenting and exploited youth services.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $177K | $242K | $37K | $7,129 | $2,900 | $80K |
| 2023 | $237K | $260K | $54K | $1,316 | $2,200 | $128K |
| 2022 | $249K | $212K | $36K | $8,738 | $7,950 | $168K |
| 2021 | $234K | $192K | $67K | $11K | $6,925 | $124K |
| 2020 | $284K | $273K | $116K | $9,810 | $2,400 | $78K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $2,400 to 2 qualified donees:
- Campaign Life Coalition$1,200
- Canadahelps Canadon$1,200
Received $90K from 20 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$29K
- Canadahelps Canadon$29K
- Deep Water Church$5,000
- Halifax Association for Improving the Conditions of the Poor$5,000
- Garnet and Kay Wheaton Foundation$5,000
- Grace Chapel$3,600
- Fall River Community Bible Chapel$3,250
- Bedford Presbyterian Church$1,500
- Bethel Community Church$1,500
- Cornerstone Wesleyan Church$1,200
- Timberlea Community Bible Chapel Association$1,200
- Rock Church Christian Association$1,200
- Calvary Temple$1,176
- Lake Echo Fellowship Baptist Church$500
- First Baptist Church$460
- Christian Reformed Church of Halifax$382
- Fall River Baptist Church$200
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$187
- Good Shepherd Church$100
- Pleasantville Baptist Church$18
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions1
- Total compensation, all staff$123K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Joe Dipents (chair); Lori Burgess (secretary); Heather Harman (exoficio); Bradley Cameron (treasurer); Erica Doucette (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Open Door Womens CARE Centre’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 107461485RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.