The Good Neighbours' Club
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 118941269RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,131,148) as filed with the CRA.
The Good Neighbours' Club is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $3.1M in revenue and $2.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 34% from donations, 33% from government, 28% from other charities. In 2024, 26 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $899K.
Compared with 1,125 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 20% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 17 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.7M in 2020 to $3.1M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
The good neighbours' club is a daytime drop-in centre operating 365 days a year as a place of safety and welcome for older men who are street-involved shelter-based or precariously housed. Front-line services include congregate dining food distribution clothing distribution showers laundry facilities library access to telephones online computers and letter and parcel mail boxes. The good neighbours' club staff and seconded professionals offer mental health addiction housing nursing and social services assistance. Our community services include a friendly visiting program for shut I…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.1M | $2.1M | $1.6M | $44K | — | $3M |
| 2023 | $2.1M | $2.1M | $1.6M | $34K | — | $2.1M |
| 2022 | $2M | $1.6M | $1.2M | $54K | — | $2.1M |
| 2021 | $1.9M | $1.5M | $1.1M | $43K | — | $1.7M |
| 2020 | $1.7M | $1.7M | $1M | $45K | — | $1.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $899K from 26 charities:
- P. and L. Odette Charitable Foundation$200K
- United Way of Greater Toronto$112K
- Canadahelps Canadon$110K
- Canadahelps Canadon$110K
- La Fondation Emmanuelle Gattuso$100K
- Canada Gives$60K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$34K
- Holdbest Foundation$30K
- The Bedolfe Foundation$25K
- Tippet Foundation$20K
- Toronto Foundation$20K
- M.E.H. Foundation$15K
- United Way of Greater Toronto$11K
- BenefAction Foundation$11K
- Barry and Laurie Green Family Charitable Trust$10K
- Walker Wood Foundation$10K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$5,000
- Extraordinary Church$3,000
- Card for Change$2,910
- Mazon Canada$2,500
- C And C Family Foundation$2,200
- Timothy Eaton Memorial Church$2,000
- Gary & Maxie Bluestein Charitable Foundation$1,900
- Grace Church-ON-The-Hill$1,000
- My Charity Fund$241
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9996 positions
- $1–39,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions17
- Total compensation, all staff$1M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Andrew Clark (chair); Michael McCarthy (vice-chair); Arif Ahmad (secretary); Robert Tudhope (treasurer); Liz Jordan; Joshua Cox; Scott Mahaffy.
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Good Neighbours' Club’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118941269RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.