Charity BreakdownCanadian charity filings, itemized

United Way of Sarnia-Lambton

Public foundation · Sarnia, Ontario · BN 119278380RR0001 · Foundations · website

Your $100, itemizedUnited Way of Sarnia-LambtonFiscal year ended December 31, 2024
Gifts to other charities$68
Other$32
TOTAL$100
Registered

Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,796,485) as filed with the CRA.

United Way of Sarnia-Lambton is a public foundation based in Sarnia, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.8M in revenue and $1.8M in expenditures.

Its funding that year was roughly 96% from donations. In 2024, 17 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $438K.

Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 19% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 6 permanent full-time positions.

As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 84 qualified donees totalling $1.2M in 2024, the largest being $143K to Big Brothers Big Sisters of Sarnia-Lambton. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $2.7M in 2020 to $1.8M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 2 names.

In its own words

Big brothers big sisters bgc sarnia-lambton canadian red cross family counselling center habitat for humanity the inn of the good shepherd john howard society lambton elderly outreach new beginnings abi & stroke recovery association north lambton community health centre rebound salvation army von - county of lambton student nutrition walpole island first nation warming shelter ymca of southwestern ontario river city vineyard children's aid society

Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.

The ledger, 2020–2024

YearRevenueSpendingProgramsFundraisingGifts outNet assets
2024$1.8M$1.8M——$1.2M$851K
2023$2.1M$2.1M——$1.5M$750K
2022$2M$1.9M——$1.3M$916K
2021$2.3M$2.1M——$1.5M$3.9M
2020$2.7M$2.6M$178K$208K$2M$3.7M

Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.

Public foundation — endowment and payout, December 31, 2024

Held at year end$2.5M$2,503,337 in total assets
Given away$1.2Mto 84 charities
That is48.7%of what it holds
Where the money came from
  • Receipted donations$1,000,314
  • Other gifts$710,101
  • Investment income$43,435

This ratio is gifts made divided by total assets at year end. It is not the CRA disbursement quota, which is calculated on the average value of property not used in charitable activities and cannot be derived from these filings.

Money between charities, 2024

Granted $1.2M to 84 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:

Full grant ledger — all 84 grants

As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.

What it pays

Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:

  • $80,000–119,9992 positions
  • $40,000–79,9992 positions
  • $1–39,9992 positions
  • Permanent full-time positions6
  • Total compensation, all staff$347K

Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.

Directors & trustees (2024)

Pamela Bodkin (non voting); Dave Brown (non voting).

As listed on its 2024 return.

Check the source

Every figure on this page is from United Way of Sarnia-Lambton’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119278380RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.