United Way Community Services of Guelph and Wellington
Public foundation · Guelph, Ontario · BN 107457053RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,945,516) as filed with the CRA.
United Way Community Services of Guelph and Wellington is a public foundation based in Guelph, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $2.9M in revenue and $2.9M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 91% from donations, 7% from government. In 2024, 21 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $650K.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 24% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 11 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 35 qualified donees totalling $1.4M in 2024, the largest being $165K to Compass Community Services. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $4.5M in 2020 to $2.9M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
United way guelph wellington dufferin strives to meet existing and emerging social needs in order in improve lives and build community. We do this by facilitating continued engagement on community issues through ongoing communications with our network of partners and monitoring research leading collective solutions to emerging needs including providing funding for community programs and collective initiatives and mobilizing community support to create lasting positive change on those issues.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.9M | $2.9M | $589K | $766K | $1.5M | $1.1M |
| 2023 | $4.4M | $4.4M | $533K | $751K | $3M | $1.2M |
| 2022 | $3M | $3.2M | $504K | $739K | $1.6M | $1.1M |
| 2021 | $3.2M | $3M | $962K | $689K | $1.1M | $1.4M |
| 2020 | $4.5M | $4.9M | $436K | $816K | $3.5M | $1.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1.4M to 35 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Compass Community Services$165K
- Wyndham House$93K
- Guelph Community Health Centre$91K
- Guelph (M.O.G.) Welcome In Drop In Centre Corporation$87K
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Guelph$71K
- East Wellington Community Services Inc.$68K
- Guelph Neighbourhood Support Coalition$67K
- Guelph - Wellington Women in Crises$61K
- The Children's Aid Society of the County of Dufferin$61K
- Community Resource Centre of North and Centre Wellington$59K
- Hope House Guelph$56K
- Kindle Communities Organization$51K
- Sanguen Health Centre Foundation$38K
- Art Not Shame$35K
- Immigrant Services - Guelph-Wellington Inc.$30K
- Chalmers Community Services Centre of the United Church of Canada$28K
- Orangeville Food Bank : Caring for the Community$28K
- Southwest Ontario Aboriginal Health Access Centre$28K
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of North Wellington$23K
- Wellington County Learning Centre$22K
- Shelldale Family Gateway$22K
- Victorian Order of Nurses For Canada - Ontario Branch$21K
- Canadian Mental Health Association Waterloo Wellington Branch$20K
- United Way Community Services of Guelph and Wellington$20K
- Guelph/wellington Seniors Association$20K
Received $650K from 21 charities:
- University of Guelph$213K
- United Way of Greater Toronto$136K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$75K
- Canadahelps Canadon$45K
- Canadahelps Canadon$45K
- University of Guelph$35K
- The Guelph Community Foundation$22K
- United Way Community Services of Guelph and Wellington$20K
- RBC Foundation$15K
- United Way Waterloo Region Communities$15K
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$7,592
- United Way Golden Horseshoe$7,083
- Abundance Canada$3,100
- BenefAction Foundation$2,500
- United Way of Calgary and Area$2,223
- Goodwill Industries Ontario Great Lakes$2,215
- Ford Motor Company of Canada Limited$2,071
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,063
- Mowbray and Doris Sifton Family Foundation$912
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$500
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$77
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
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions11
- Total compensation, all staff$998K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Steven Jacobs (director); Kola Ipaye (treasurer); Patricia Tersigni (director); Randa Macnaughton (president); David Hennick (director); Robyn Gladstone (director); Mike Greer (vice president); Kayla Gordon (director); Maala Kalangath (director); Lesley Christodoulou (director); Tanya Hanrahan (director); Gwen Croser (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from United Way Community Services of Guelph and Wellington’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 107457053RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.