ST Matthew's House
Publicly funded institution · Hamilton, Ontario · BN 130304538RR0001 · Public Amenities · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($6,295,546) as filed with the CRA.
ST Matthew's House is a charitable organization based in Hamilton, Ontario, classified by the CRA under public amenities. 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 $6.5M in revenue and $6.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 8% from donations, 74% from government, 5% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 20 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $400K.
Compared with 276 public-amenity 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 positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (3 positions in that band). The charity reported 76 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $2.2M in 2020 to $6.5M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
St. Matthew's House is a multiservice innovative and forward-thinking non-profit agency located in Hamilton Ontario Canada. A frontline organization committed to lifting up the most vulnerable people among us - providing essential support to meet the needs of families and children and vulnerable seniors 55+ living in wards 1-4 in Hamilton by connecting them to food housing healthcare childcare and financial security. Among the programs we provide are seniors support services housing focused street outreach deeply affordable housing holiday relief for families and seniors and license…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $6.5M | $6.3M | $5.6M | $14K | — | $1.5M |
| 2023 | $3.9M | $3.6M | $3M | $11K | — | $1.3M |
| 2022 | $2.5M | $2.7M | — | — | — | $1.4M |
| 2021 | $2.6M | $2.1M | $1.7M | $2,502 | — | $1.4M |
| 2020 | $2.2M | $2.1M | $1.9M | $2,118 | — | $957K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $400K from 20 charities:
- Hamilton Community Foundation$196K
- United Way Golden Horseshoe$79K
- Greater Hamilton Food Share$38K
- Canadahelps Canadon$19K
- Canadahelps Canadon$19K
- Canada Gives$14K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$11K
- Dundas Valley Foundation$7,010
- BenefAction Foundation$5,000
- Community of the Sisters of the Church (ontario)$2,200
- The Anglican Church of ST Michael$1,741
- Hamilton-Wentworth Regional Police Employees Charity Trust Project Concern$1,500
- ST. George's Benevolent Society of Hamilton Charitable Trust$1,000
- The Synod of the Diocese of Niagara$947
- The Synod of the Diocese of Niagara$880
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$820
- The Synod of the Diocese of Niagara$700
- The Synod of the Diocese of Niagara$500
- The Synod of the Diocese of Niagara$475
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$150
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 positions76
- Total compensation, all staff$4.6M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Bishop Susan Bell (ex-officio); Brent Bentham (vice chair); Mary Burnett (chair); Kudzanai Chasosa (board member); Val Kerr (board member); Bill Mous (board member); David Savage (past board chair); Lil Scime (board member); Alex Kaulback (board member); Robert Gibson (treasurer); Ekene Okwumo (board member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from ST Matthew's House’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 130304538RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.