The Merlin Senior Citizens Friendship Club
Charitable organization · Merlin, Ontario · BN 119245033RR0001 · Public Amenities
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($51,784) as filed with the CRA.
The Merlin Senior Citizens Friendship Club is a charitable organization based in Merlin, Ontario, classified by the CRA under public amenities. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $53K in revenue and $52K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 44% from donations, 9% from government. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $12K.
Compared with 2,652 public-amenity charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 37% of peers.
It reported gifts to 6 qualified donees totalling $150 in 2024, the largest being $25 to Blenheim Medical Health Foundation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $32K in 2020 to $53K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
Entertainment and recreation such as card playing quilting crafts and art & computer classes; Chicken dinners for fund raising purposes and social outing. Our monthly newsletter is appreciated by area residents as well as former Merlin citizens. Other community group use facilities at no cost; family Christmas parties wedding and baby showers rent our building. We are a member of the C-K Senior Advisory Committee sharing ideas between 11 senior clubs throughout the municipality. We are on the C-K Senior Games Committee and host the semi annual euchre tournaments. organize a town-wide yard…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $53K | $52K | $36K | — | $5,350 | $102K |
| 2023 | $45K | $40K | $25K | — | $600 | $95K |
| 2022 | $18K | $22K | — | — | $1,450 | $90K |
| 2021 | $24K | $26K | $17K | — | $352 | $94K |
| 2020 | $32K | $29K | $19K | — | $345 | $95K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $150 to 6 qualified donees:
- Blenheim Medical Health Foundation$25
- Chatham-Kent Hospice Foundation$25
- Alzheimer Society of Chatham-Kent$25
- Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada$25
- Merlin United Church$25
- Canadian Cancer Society$25
Received $12K from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Margaret Darnley (treasurer); George Darnley (president); Keith Drew (director); Susanne Drew (secretary); Marguerite Faubert (vice president); Pearl Larouche (director); Helen Masterson (director); Roger McLeod (director); Lenore Merritt (director); Richard Sharp (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Merlin Senior Citizens Friendship Club’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119245033RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.