The Shoebox Project for Shelters
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 833095045RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($818,660) as filed with the CRA.
The Shoebox Project for Shelters is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $845K in revenue and $819K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 79% from donations, 13% from other charities. In 2024, 31 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $240K.
Compared with 2,470 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 40% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 3 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $448K in 2020 to $845K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Provide gifts to women living in shelters or accessing community support. Raise awareness of women's homelessness poverty and violence against women.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $845K | $819K | $685K | $15K | — | $220K |
| 2023 | $920K | $856K | $720K | $17K | — | $320K |
| 2022 | $911K | $772K | $682K | — | — | $377K |
| 2021 | $1M | $969K | $838K | — | $60K | $358K |
| 2020 | $448K | $297K | $229K | — | — | $388K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $240K from 31 charities:
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$32K
- The Allstate Foundation of Canada$25K
- Toronto Foundation$25K
- Canadahelps Canadon$23K
- Canadahelps Canadon$23K
- TELUS Friendly Future Foundation$20K
- Ontario Medical Foundation$17K
- The Tenaquip Foundation$15K
- Audrey S. Hellyer Charitable Foundation$10K
- Mowbray and Doris Sifton Family Foundation$10K
- Hallmark Giving$8,000
- The Unity Values Foundation$5,876
- Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal$5,000
- Traquair Family Foundation$5,000
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$3,370
- Yellow Door Choir$3,000
- Unifor Social Justice Fund/Le fonds de justice sociale d'Unifor$2,500
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$1,500
- Sarnia Community Foundation$1,500
- The Upside Down Tree Family Foundation Inc.$1,000
- Jubilee Fellowship Christian Reformed Church of ST. Catharines$548
- United Way Niagara$531
- Simcoe Rotary Club Charitable Account$500
- Lakeshore Corridor Community Team Inc.$350
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$347
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
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions3
- Total compensation, all staff$322K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Allie Page (director); James Albrecht (director); John-Paul Ricchio (director); Nicole Watts (chair); Shannon Murree (director); Tracee Smith (director); Heather Colquhoun (director); Tessa Hadzipetros (director); Danielle Anisef (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Shoebox Project for Shelters’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 833095045RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.