True Experience Supportive Housing and Community Work Program
Publicly funded institution · Dunnville, Ontario · BN 108142746RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($938,277) as filed with the CRA.
True Experience Supportive Housing and Community Work Program is a charitable organization based in Dunnville, 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 $1M in revenue and $938K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 60% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 4 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $119K.
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 9% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (4 positions in that band). The charity reported 4 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
(1). Establish and maintain programs of an occupational and work nature for the assistance and personal development of people living with mental illness. (2). Running non-profit operations in the community whereby people living with mental illness can work and interact with a view to enablle such persons to become self-supporting and as independant as running a co-operative housing program for people living with mental illness
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1M | $938K | $685K | — | — | $725K |
| 2023 | $913K | $917K | $692K | — | — | $632K |
| 2022 | $803K | $788K | $622K | — | — | $636K |
| 2021 | $790K | $718K | $565K | — | — | $1.8M |
| 2020 | $811K | $690K | $527K | — | — | $546K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $119K from 4 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions4
- Total compensation, all staff$541K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Carol Turner (board member); Mark Leonard (chair); Angie O'Brien (treasurer); Penny Banks (secretary); Dave Crechiola (board member); Shirley Fleming (vice chair); Lisa Taylor (board member); Judy Fowlie (board member); Jennifer Passmore (board member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from True Experience Supportive Housing and Community Work Program’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 108142746RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.