United Way Golden Horseshoe
Public foundation · Hamilton, Ontario · BN 107462988RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($16,651,007) as filed with the CRA.
United Way Golden Horseshoe is a public foundation based in Hamilton, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $17M in revenue and $16.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 45% from donations, 20% from government, 21% from other charities. In 2024, 49 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $4.2M.
Compared with 380 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 34% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 39 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 406 qualified donees totalling $10.8M in 2024, the largest being $390K to Support House. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $11.3M in 2020 to $17M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 17 names.
In its own words
United way halton & hamilton raises funds in the community and allocates them to registered charitable organizations within the communities of halton & hamilton. United way has seed feed and root funding streams that contribute to: 1. Poverty to possibility 2. Healthy people strong communities 3. All that kids can be. United way itself contributes to other initiatives such as our community donation warehouse which provides donated gift-in-kind items to community agencies as well as other initiatives such as organizational development financial empowerment period promise social inno…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $17M | $16.7M | $2.3M | $2M | $11M | $8.7M |
| 2023 | $14.5M | $11.9M | — | — | $6.2M | $8.5M |
| 2022 | $12.8M | $11.9M | $1.9M | $1.8M | $7.1M | $5.7M |
| 2021 | $17.7M | $15.7M | $2.1M | $1.7M | $10.8M | $4.7M |
| 2020 | $11.3M | $10.8M | $1.2M | $1.8M | $6.7M | $3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $10.8M to 406 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Support House$390K
- Reach Out Centre for Kids$361K
- Social Planning and Research Council of Hamilton$322K
- Big Brothers Big Sisters Of Halton and Hamilton$266K
- Nucleus Independent Living$251K
- Thrive Counselling Services Halton Inc.$250K
- Distress Centre Halton$250K
- YWCA Hamilton$239K
- Acclaim Health and Community CARE Services$237K
- Canadian Mental Health Association Hamilton Branch$235K
- The Jewish Social Services of Hamilton Inc.$201K
- YMCA of Hamilton/burlington/brantford$183K
- Sexual Assault & Violence Intervention Services of Halton$177K
- Hope Place Centres$160K
- Food for Life Canada Charitable Corporation$157K
- The Canadian Caribbean Association of Halton$156K
- The Living Rock Ministries$148K
- Good Shepherd Non-Profit Homes Inc$145K
- Eva Rothwell Centre$142K
- Supported Training and Rehabilitation in Diverse Environments$141K
- Wesley Urban Ministries Inc.$141K
- Home Suite Hope Shared Living Corp.$141K
- Milton Community Resource Centre$135K
- Hamilton East Kiwanis Boys' & Girls' Club$131K
- Community Living Oakville$130K
Received $4.2M from 49 charities:
- June and Ian Cockwell Private Foundation$1.2M
- United Way of Greater Toronto$988K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$732K
- RBC Foundation$200K
- Ford Motor Company of Canada Limited$174K
- Oakville Community Foundation$117K
- Wayne and Isabel Fox Family Foundation$100K
- Hamilton Community Foundation$82K
- Aqueduct Foundation$71K
- Canadahelps Canadon$60K
- Canadahelps Canadon$60K
- Appleby College$40K
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$31K
- A. W. B. Charitable Foundation$30K
- BenefAction Foundation$30K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$26K
- The Wilson Foundation la Fondation Wilson$25K
- John Deere Foundation of Canada$20K
- Canada Gives$20K
- ST Josephs Hospital Hamilton Employees Charity Trust$19K
- Burlington Community Foundation$19K
- Cidel Foundation$17K
- The Mitchell Family Foundation$10K
- The Doug Lamon Foundation$10K
- United Way of the Alberta Capital Region$6,077
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9998 positions
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions39
- Total compensation, all staff$3.4M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Adejisola Atiba (director); Mary Cardamone (director); Chris Cooke (director); Jayoti Edington (director); Robert Forbes (director); Cam Galindo (director); Greg Jones (director); Lisa Klimkowski (director); Anthony Marco (director); James McAskill (director); Susan Nicholson (chair); Trent Ogilvie (director); Dan Pearce (director); Rachna Singhal (vice chair); Margaret Taylor (director); Jerome Adamo (director); Sari Taha (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from United Way Golden Horseshoe’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 107462988RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.