Reception House - Waterloo Region Inc.
Publicly funded institution · Kitchener, Ontario · BN 840337653RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($8,228,511) as filed with the CRA.
Reception House - Waterloo Region Inc. is a charitable organization based in Kitchener, 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 $9.2M in revenue and $8.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 7% from donations, 91% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 13 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $373K.
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 48% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 47 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $3.2M in 2020 to $9.2M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
Reception house - waterloo region is established to provide temporary accomodation education counselling and other support services for refugees and government assisted refugees in need arriving in the regional municipality of waterloo. The client support services is a case management type of support for clients to provide them with the knowledge necessary to improve their quality of life in canada. The costs of the client support services is primarily funded by immigration refugees and citizenship canada (ircc) under the immigrant settlement and adaptation program (isap). The rese…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $9.2M | $8.2M | $7.3M | — | — | $3.4M |
| 2023 | $7.7M | $6.8M | $6.2M | — | — | $2.4M |
| 2022 | $5.1M | $4.4M | $3.9M | — | — | $1.6M |
| 2021 | $2.9M | $2.8M | $2.4M | — | — | $931K |
| 2020 | $3.2M | $3.1M | $2.7M | — | — | $856K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $373K from 13 charities:
- The Fairmount Foundation$150K
- The Lyle Shantz Hallman Charitable Foundation$125K
- Waterloo Region Community Foundation$46K
- Astley Family Foundation$25K
- Canadahelps Canadon$6,372
- Abundance Canada$5,200
- United Way Waterloo Region Communities$5,073
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$5,000
- Blue Sea Philanthropy Inc.$2,807
- Parkminster United Church$1,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$978
- Conrad Grebel University College$160
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$118
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,99944 positions
- $1–39,9999 positions
- Permanent full-time positions47
- Total compensation, all staff$2.8M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Hilde Bouckenooghe (secretary); Raphael Kanai (board member); Rick Silva (chair); Debra Tonin (treasurer); Saba Shafiq (board member); Ash Singh (board member); Julie Dopko (vice chair); Kelly Kipfer (board member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Reception House - Waterloo Region Inc.’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 840337653RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.