The Kingston Humane Society
Charitable organization · Kingston, Ontario · BN 119240604RR0001 · Animal Welfare · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,429,737) as filed with the CRA.
The Kingston Humane Society is a charitable organization based in Kingston, Ontario, classified by the CRA under animal welfare. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $2.3M in revenue and $2.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 42% from donations, 27% from government. In 2024, 17 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $191K.
Compared with 112 animal-welfare charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 48% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 77% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 33 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
Kingston humane society's mission is: to care for injured abused and homeless animals to return or find homes for these animals to promote/organize spay and neuter programs to undertake cruelty investigations to provide emergency rescues to provide humane education to assist with the educational programs for st. Lawrence college spay neuter clinic
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.3M | $2.4M | $2M | $223K | — | $2.2M |
| 2023 | $2.5M | $2.3M | $1.9M | $199K | — | $2.2M |
| 2022 | $2.1M | $2.1M | $1.7M | $183K | — | $1.9M |
| 2021 | $1.6M | $1.8M | $1.7M | $31K | — | $2.1M |
| 2020 | $1.7M | $1.6M | $1.4M | $25K | — | $2.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $191K from 17 charities:
- Watts and Silver Memorial Fund$44K
- Canadahelps Canadon$34K
- Canadahelps Canadon$34K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$34K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$16K
- Aqueduct Foundation$10K
- United Way of Kingston Frontenac Lennox & Addington$7,748
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$2,754
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$2,200
- Community Foundation for Kingston & Area$2,055
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$2,023
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,258
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$1,010
- BenefAction Foundation$500
- United Way of Greater Toronto$83
- United Way of Leeds and Grenville$40
- My Tribute Gift Foundation—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions33
- Total compensation, all staff$1.5M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Courtney Murphy (president); Joe Tomasich (treasurer); Gord Hunter (executive director); Geoff Hodgetts (director); Patricia Taylor (secretary); Alicia Turney (director); Emma Clark (director); Megan Blundell (director); Luke Macdonald (director); Sarah Bennett (director); Dana Betournay (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Kingston Humane Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119240604RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.