Second Chance Employment Counselling (wellington) Inc.
Publicly funded institution · Guelph, Ontario · BN 119144012RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,536,270) as filed with the CRA.
Second Chance Employment Counselling (wellington) Inc. is a charitable organization based in Guelph, 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 $2.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 95% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $100.
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 21% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 34 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
1)provides employment counselling for people of all ages. 2)provides job placement. 3)supplements income for employees in new job placements.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3M | $2.5M | $2.1M | — | — | $1.4M |
| 2023 | $3.2M | $2.9M | $2.5M | — | — | $1.4M |
| 2022 | $2.7M | $2.5M | $2.1M | — | $18K | $1.3M |
| 2021 | $2.5M | $2.4M | $2M | — | — | $1.3M |
| 2020 | $2.8M | $2.8M | $2.4M | — | — | $1.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $100 from 1 charity:
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
- $40,000–79,9999 positions
- Permanent full-time positions34
- Total compensation, all staff$1.5M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Chris Baginski-Hansen (executive director); Don Coulman (director); Rhondda Lymburner (chair); Reny Pietrobon (director); James Robinson (director); Randall Wilson (director); Julie Croskill (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Second Chance Employment Counselling (wellington) Inc.’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119144012RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.