Thunder Bay Emergency Shelter Inc.
Publicly funded institution · Thunder Bay, Ontario · BN 119264190RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,115,339) as filed with the CRA.
Thunder Bay Emergency Shelter Inc. is a charitable organization based in Thunder Bay, 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 December 31, 2024, it reported $2.2M in revenue and $2.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 21% from donations, 72% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 16 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $354K.
Compared with 1,618 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 10% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 83% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (9 positions in that band). The charity reported 25 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $3.3M in 2020 to $2.2M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
.Temporary emergency shelter for homeless individuals .Community feeding program .Managed alcohol program
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.2M | $2.1M | $1.6M | $13K | — | $0 |
| 2023 | $2.5M | $2.1M | $1.5M | $18K | — | $0 |
| 2022 | $2M | $2.2M | $1.4M | $12K | — | $0 |
| 2021 | $3M | $3M | $2.1M | $19K | $0 | $0 |
| 2020 | $3.3M | $2.9M | $2M | $5,100 | — | $0 |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $354K from 16 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$130K
- Canadahelps Canadon$130K
- Lakehead Unitarian Fellowship$18K
- Lakehead Unitarian Fellowship$18K
- The Home Depot Canada Foundation$14K
- The Frank H Hori Charitable Foundation$10K
- Doane Grant Thornton Foundation$10K
- The Home Depot Canada Foundation$8,408
- Thunder Bay Community Foundation$6,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$3,037
- Steelworkers Humanity Fund Inc./ le Fonds Humanitaire des Metallos Inc.$2,000
- United Way of Thunder Bay$1,463
- First-Wesley United Church$1,122
- ST. Andrew's Presbyterian Church$628
- BenefAction Foundation$250
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$23
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9999 positions
- $1–39,99914 positions
- Permanent full-time positions25
- Total compensation, all staff$1.5M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jason Perrier (chair-president); Lydia Big George (director); Kathleen Eaton (treasurer); Teena Chabot (vice chair); Mika Lees (chair/president); Jodi Phillips (secretary).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Thunder Bay Emergency Shelter Inc.’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119264190RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.