Sandgate Women's Shelter of York Region Inc.
Publicly funded institution · Sutton West, Ontario · BN 136663812RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,883,927) as filed with the CRA.
Sandgate Women's Shelter of York Region Inc. is a charitable organization based in Sutton West, 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 $3M in revenue and $2.9M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 7% from donations, 79% from government, 11% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 12 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $331K.
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 42% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 81% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 26 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
We provide emergency shelter and necessities to abused women and their children as well as additional services such as court support housing support one-on-one and group supportive counselling for both women and their children. These services are available free of charge for abused women and their children throughout york region. In additiona second stage/traditional apartments are available on a short term basis (6 months maximum) to abused women who are accessing our core services. Sandgate women's shelter is the flow through agency for the york region centre for community safety and these…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3M | $2.9M | $2.5M | $6,217 | — | $3.2M |
| 2023 | $3.8M | $3.1M | $2.7M | $5,141 | — | $3.1M |
| 2022 | $3M | $2.9M | $2.6M | $300 | — | $2.4M |
| 2021 | $4M | $3.1M | $2.8M | $17K | — | $2.6M |
| 2020 | $2.9M | $2.7M | $2.4M | $35K | — | $2.4M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $331K from 12 charities:
- United Way of Greater Toronto$274K
- Canadahelps Canadon$16K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$10K
- The Dunin Foundation$10K
- Shoppers Foundation for Women's Health$6,085
- Association of Christian Evangelical Ministries (Canada)$5,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$3,973
- Belhaven Free Methodist Church$2,000
- Christ Church$2,000
- United Way of Greater Toronto$906
- Mount Albert Pastoral Charge$200
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$59
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
- $40,000–79,9998 positions
- Permanent full-time positions26
- Total compensation, all staff$2.1M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Michelle Rey-Lloyd (chair); Teodora Soare (vice-chair); Ana-Maria Pivato (treasurer); Joan Chandler (secretary); Johanne Micelli (secretary); Chris Balarajah (director); Angelica Milu (director); Zainab Zaidi (director); Jeannine Rosenberg (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Sandgate Women's Shelter of York Region Inc.’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 136663812RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.