Social Development Centre Waterloo Region
Publicly funded institution · Kitchener, Ontario · BN 107987166RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,049,340) as filed with the CRA.
Social Development Centre Waterloo Region 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 December 31, 2024, it reported $1.1M in revenue and $1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 6% from donations, 68% from government, 23% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 13 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $398K.
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 99% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (6 positions in that band). The charity reported 10 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $35K in 2024, the largest being $35K to A Better Tent City Waterloo Region. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $296K in 2020 to $1.1M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
Provide information and referral of social services Undertake social research Provide support and services for the charitable sector Our primary pillars are Housing & Homelessness Grassroots Infrastructure and Lived Expertise. Our service programs include Civic Hub Waterloo Region Eviction Prevention Peer Support Lived Expertise Support and Festival of Neighbourhoods.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.1M | $1M | $780K | — | $293K | $59K |
| 2023 | $759K | $760K | $427K | — | $230K | $44K |
| 2022 | $726K | $690K | $247K | — | $375K | $46K |
| 2021 | $452K | $455K | $402K | — | — | $14K |
| 2020 | $296K | $284K | $257K | — | — | $27K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $35K to 1 qualified donee:
Received $398K from 13 charities:
- United Way Waterloo Region Communities$216K
- Waterloo Region Community Foundation$55K
- Gore Mutual Insurance Company Foundation$37K
- Abundance Canada$33K
- Bridges To Belonging$22K
- Canadahelps Canadon$17K
- Blue Sea Philanthropy Inc.$13K
- Parkminster United Church$2,600
- Breslau Mennonite Church$1,725
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$650
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$140
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$50
- 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:
- $40,000–79,9996 positions
- $1–39,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions10
- Total compensation, all staff$580K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Brad Ullner (past chair); Nathan Pike (treasurer); Leah Young (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Social Development Centre Waterloo Region’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 107987166RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.