The Brown Homestead
Charitable organization · ST Catharines, Ontario · BN 817036163RR0001 · Public Amenities · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($744,981) as filed with the CRA.
The Brown Homestead is a charitable organization based in ST Catharines, Ontario, classified by the CRA under public amenities. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $916K in revenue and $745K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 36% from other charities. In 2024, 3 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $207K.
Compared with 1,296 public-amenity charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 31% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 91% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 8 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $218K in 2020 to $916K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
The brown homestead (tbh) engages canadians with their cultural heritage through the protection and preservation of the brown homestead historic site in the niagara region. Tbh is transforming the location of the john brown house (c. 1796-1804) and john norton cabin (c. 1817) into a thriving cultural centre and gathering place working to design test and implement history and heritage based programs and to present cultural arts culture and educational programming in cooperation with a diverse network of community and institutional partners. In doing this the brown homestead will provide a …
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $916K | $745K | $512K | $77K | — | $2.8M |
| 2023 | $655K | $694K | $419K | $71K | — | $2.7M |
| 2022 | $195K | $480K | $365K | — | — | $2.7M |
| 2021 | $1.1M | $245K | $179K | — | $30 | $3M |
| 2020 | $218K | $394K | $325K | — | — | $2.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $207K from 3 charities:
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
- $40,000–79,9995 positions
- $1–39,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions8
- Total compensation, all staff$470K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Andrew Homeniuk (executive director); Justin Deonarine (secretary); Jennifer Humeniuk (director); Brian Narhi (director); Lorraine Giroux (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Brown Homestead’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 817036163RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.