The Busby Centre
Publicly funded institution · Barrie, Ontario · BN 892557752RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($4,417,852) as filed with the CRA.
The Busby Centre is a charitable organization based in Barrie, 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 $4.3M in revenue and $4.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 6% from donations, 93% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 26 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $401K.
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 73% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 47 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $473K in 2020 to $4.3M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
Drop in centre mobile outreach program counselling program out of the cold program (provide some on-site support and funding only)
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.3M | $4.4M | $4.2M | $37K | — | $588K |
| 2023 | $5M | $4.7M | $4.4M | $59K | — | $642K |
| 2022 | $7.3M | $7.1M | $6.9M | $63K | — | $309K |
| 2021 | $5M | $4.9M | $4.7M | $13K | — | $82K |
| 2020 | $473K | $477K | $440K | $13K | — | $24K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $401K from 26 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$118K
- Canadahelps Canadon$118K
- Hockey Helps the Homeless/hockey Aide les Sans-Abri$70K
- Clearview Stayner Food Bank$20K
- First Christian Reformed Church of Barrie Ont$14K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$11K
- Jubilee Presbyterian Church$6,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$5,080
- Emmanuel Baptist Church of Barrie$5,000
- The Albarrie Foundation$5,000
- Incorporated Synod of the Diocese of Toronto$4,630
- The Tonglen Foundation$4,000
- Grace United Church$3,500
- The Tonglen Foundation$3,000
- ST John Vianney Parish Council No 10370 Charitable Welfare Trust$3,000
- Vancouver Foundation$2,700
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$2,042
- North-West Barrie United Church$1,295
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,125
- Christian Stewardship Services$1,000
- Collier Street United Church$567
- Saint Joseph Parish$500
- Burton Avenue United Church$500
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$156
- The Larche Family Foundation$100
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 positions47
- Total compensation, all staff$3M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Carol Forget (secretary); Gail Michalenko (director); Kelly Patterson-McGrath (director); Andrew Petras (treasurer); Susan Eagle (chair); Alex Stubbs (vice chair); Kim Oxley (director); Stephane Quenneville (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Busby Centre’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 892557752RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.