Redwood Park Communities Inc.
Charitable organization · Barrie, Ontario · BN 850158668RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,453,561) as filed with the CRA.
Redwood Park Communities Inc. is a charitable organization based in Barrie, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $4.5M in revenue and $3.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 21% from donations, 50% from government, 11% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 24 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $928K.
Compared with 1,125 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 94% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 91% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (3 positions in that band). The charity reported 26 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.5M in 2020 to $4.5M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
Provide transitional and permanent housing to person(s) and families who are homeless. Providing housing for women and children who have fled domestic violence for a better life. Offering support programs to these person(s) to assist with their transition and secure a better future. Furniture bank programs provides an effective solution for waste deposal while offering recycled furnite to low income families and those in need of furniture to house their new beginnings.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.5M | $3.5M | $3.4M | $5,498 | — | $5.4M |
| 2023 | $3.5M | $2.5M | $2.1M | $38K | — | $4.2M |
| 2022 | $2.5M | $1.7M | $1.4M | $38K | — | $2.3M |
| 2021 | $1.6M | $1.3M | $1.1M | $51K | — | $1.8M |
| 2020 | $1.5M | $873K | $759K | $45K | — | -$122K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $928K from 24 charities:
- The Salvation Army Ontario Division$250K
- Couchiching Jubilee House$213K
- United Way Simcoe Muskoka$137K
- Hockey Helps the Homeless/hockey Aide les Sans-Abri$70K
- Canadahelps Canadon$55K
- Canadahelps Canadon$55K
- The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation$30K
- Prince Edward County Community Foundation$30K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$20K
- The Rotary Club of Barrie Ontario Canada Inc.$12K
- Fondation Philantra Philantra Foundation$10K
- Canadian National Christian Foundation$6,000
- Raising the Roof chez Toit$5,000
- RBC Foundation$5,000
- The Albarrie Foundation$5,000
- The Tonglen Foundation$5,000
- The United Church of Canada Foundation$5,000
- Emmanuel Baptist Church of Barrie$3,100
- The Albarrie Foundation$3,000
- TD Friends of the Environment Foundation$2,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$1,857
- First Christian Reformed Church of Barrie Ont$1,801
- Kiwanis Club of Orillia Charitable Trust$1,500
- Collingwood/South Georgian Bay Rotary Charitable Foundation$1,500
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- $40,000–79,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions26
- Total compensation, all staff$1.5M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Nathan Barnes (president); Amanda Smith (treasurer); Mark Mulder (director); Jeffrey G Long (secretary); Tanya Ladd Taylor (director); Colleen Gartner (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Redwood Park Communities Inc.’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 850158668RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.