Unemployed Help Centre of Windsor Inc.
Publicly funded institution · Windsor, Ontario · BN 119275485RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($6,823,394) as filed with the CRA.
Unemployed Help Centre of Windsor Inc. is a charitable organization based in Windsor, 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 $7M in revenue and $6.8M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 77% from government, 18% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 23 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $2.7M.
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 2% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 64 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 15 names.
In its own words
To provide assistance to equip an unemployed person with skills to find a job including courses in resume preparation & completion of job application. To provide employment planning and preparation including individual career counselling. To provide life skills career exploration and vocations assessments to help individuals establish realistic goals. To assist adults lacking literacy skills thru classroom instructions. Operating a food bank for the needy including distribution of food to locations within essex county. Operating a community kitchen employing chefs and stud…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $7M | $6.8M | $1.9M | $52K | — | $7.7M |
| 2023 | $8.8M | $9M | $7.6M | $56K | — | $7.5M |
| 2022 | $8M | $8M | $6.8M | $35K | — | $7.6M |
| 2021 | $6.7M | $6.9M | $5.9M | $16K | — | $7.6M |
| 2020 | $7.7M | $7.5M | $6.4M | $124K | — | $7.8M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $2.7M from 23 charities:
- Food Banks Mississauga$1.4M
- Daily Bread Food Bank$968K
- Food Banks Canada/Banques Alimentaires Canada$212K
- Canadahelps Canadon$37K
- Canadahelps Canadon$37K
- David McAntony Gibson Foundation$32K
- Francis-Keystone Foundation$17K
- Local 200 Canadian Auto Workers Social Justice Fund$5,500
- The Chandisherry Foundation$5,000
- The Charles and Ethel Cohen Family Foundation$5,000
- Unifor Social Justice Fund/Le fonds de justice sociale d'Unifor$4,500
- Unifor Social Justice Fund/Le fonds de justice sociale d'Unifor$4,000
- BenefAction Foundation$3,125
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$3,000
- The Foundation Office.ca$2,650
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$2,534
- Local 444 Canadian Auto Workers Social Justice Fund$2,300
- Doane Grant Thornton Foundation$2,000
- The Windsor Community Concert Band Inc.$600
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$0
- United Way / Centraide Windsor-Essex County—
- United Way / Centraide Windsor-Essex County—
- The Food Bank of Waterloo Region—
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
- $80,000–119,9994 positions
- $40,000–79,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions64
- Total compensation, all staff$4.8M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2023)
Gary Parent (president); Alex Keeney (vice president); Theresa Farao (secretary); Dino Chiodo (director); Rick Thrasher (director); Sonia Lenhardt (director); Jacqueline Olivia (director); John D'Agnolo (director); Marianne Angus (director); David Crosswell (director); Peter Pellerito (director); Jack Robinson (director); June Muir (chief executive officer); Dean Christie (chief financial officier); Darryl Desjarlais (director).
As listed on its 2023 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Unemployed Help Centre of Windsor Inc.’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119275485RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.