The Good Shepherd Centre Hamilton
Publicly funded institution · Hamilton, Ontario · BN 130636798RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($43,610,657) as filed with the CRA.
The Good Shepherd Centre Hamilton is a charitable organization based in Hamilton, 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 $48.4M in revenue and $43.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 27% from donations, 66% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 75 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $6.3M.
Compared with 427 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 42% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $120,000–159,999 range (3 positions in that band). The charity reported 480 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $320K in 2024, the largest being $320K to Good Shepherd Non Profit Homes Inc. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $28M in 2020 to $48.4M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 14 names.
In its own words
Operate programs to feed clothe and shelter the needy homeless and terminally ill operate programs to secure shelter for abused women operate programs to assist clients in need of money management and advocacy operate program to educate public about clients needs and support program development
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $48.4M | $43.6M | $39.2M | $1.4M | $320K | $7.5M |
| 2023 | $41.7M | $36M | $31.6M | $1.6M | $191K | $7.4M |
| 2022 | $52.8M | $34.7M | $30.9M | $1.2M | $220K | $7.1M |
| 2021 | $38.5M | $31.7M | $29M | $808K | $116K | $6.3M |
| 2020 | $28M | $28M | $25.5M | $965K | $27K | $2.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $320K to 1 qualified donee:
- Good Shepherd Non Profit Homes Inc$320K
Received $6.3M from 75 charities:
- Greater Hamilton Food Share$3.1M
- The Lecluse Family Foundation$2.5M
- Hamilton Community Foundation$138K
- Speroway$77K
- Canadahelps Canadon$55K
- Canadahelps Canadon$55K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$53K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$29K
- The P & P Murray Foundation$20K
- Aqueduct Foundation$18K
- Marian Council 3881 Charitable Trust$18K
- Ontario Bethel Park Bible Camp Society$17K
- The Home Depot Canada Foundation$16K
- The Home Depot Canada Foundation$13K
- The Home Depot Canada Foundation$10K
- Dofasco Employee Donations Fund Dofasco Inc.$10K
- Canada Gives$9,475
- Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph in Canada$8,000
- BenefAction Foundation$7,250
- Link Charity Canada Inc$7,171
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$7,027
- Canadian National Christian Foundation$6,700
- Shoppers Foundation for Women's Health$5,965
- Burlington Community Foundation$5,049
- United Way of Greater Toronto$5,036
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9993 positions
- $80,000–119,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions480
- Total compensation, all staff$16.7M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Reginald Howson (director); Edward Lynch (director); Richard Macphee (chief executive officer); Tony Italiano (director/treasurer); Ed Dunn (director/president); Jackie Bajus (director/president/chair past); Gary Warner (director/chair); Kyla Kumar (director); Robert Dunn (director); Alyssa Lai (director); Lydia Kapiriri (director); Hanh Van Tran (director); Pat Ford (director); Manish Trehan (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Good Shepherd Centre Hamilton’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 130636798RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.