Services and Housing in the Province (SHIP)
Publicly funded institution · Mississauga, Ontario · BN 136268166RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($50,819,843) as filed with the CRA.
Services and Housing in the Province (SHIP) is a charitable organization based in Mississauga, 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 $52.4M in revenue and $50.8M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 84% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 13 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $517K.
Compared with 427 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 64% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 264 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
Services and Housing In the Province (SHIP) is a community based agency providing a spectrum of low to high intensity housing and support services through a variety of programs. Support services include supportive counselling intensive case management specialized supports (nursing trauma hoarding occupational therapy) addiction support vocational support social rehabilitation/recreation tenancy support financial literacy support crisis intervention community development and wellness and training and education. These programs address the complex needs of people living with mental …
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $52.4M | $50.8M | $47.8M | — | — | $17.8M |
| 2023 | $48.7M | $47.1M | $42M | — | — | $16.2M |
| 2022 | $49M | $45.3M | $42M | — | — | $14.5M |
| 2021 | $41.2M | $39.8M | $36.3M | — | — | $10.8M |
| 2020 | $37.8M | $36M | $32.7M | — | — | $9.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $517K from 13 charities:
- Food Banks Mississauga$390K
- United Way of Greater Toronto$50K
- United Way Waterloo Region Communities$25K
- The Home Depot Canada Foundation$12K
- Canadahelps Canadon$11K
- The Home Depot Canada Foundation$11K
- Trinity United Church$10K
- Waterloo Region Community Foundation$4,800
- Fondation RONA$1,680
- Aqueduct Foundation$1,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$464
- Socks 4 Souls Canada Inc.$98
- The Food Bank of Waterloo Region—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9994 positions
- $80,000–119,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions264
- Total compensation, all staff$25.9M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Keith Ward (director); Brian Scott (chair); Tandra Acharjee (treasurer); Krista Collinson (director); Lori Ker (vice chair); Sandy Kang-Gill (director); Alysha Racktoo (director); Justyn Mahanger (director); Jennifer Graham (director); Arun Navaratnasingam (director); Shafqat Suri (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Services and Housing in the Province (SHIP)’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 136268166RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.