United Way Peterborough & District
Publicly funded institution · Peterborough, Ontario · BN 105454482RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,754,956) as filed with the CRA.
United Way Peterborough & District is a public foundation based in Peterborough, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. 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 $3.6M in revenue and $3.8M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 24% from donations, 60% from government, 8% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 22 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $276K.
Compared with 47 grantmaking 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 $80,000–119,999 range (3 positions in that band). The charity reported 8 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 28 qualified donees totalling $1.4M in 2024, the largest being $190K to Kawartha Sexual Assault Centre. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.9M in 2020 to $3.6M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
United way peterborough & district provides funding to 20 partner agencies enabling them to provide multiple programs and services to the communtiy. Moving people from poverty to possibility and building strong & healthy communities are two of the primary focus areas. The organization also compiles research on homelessness housing and living wage.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.6M | $3.8M | $266K | $314K | $1.4M | $3.2M |
| 2023 | $2.6M | $3M | $225K | $349K | $920K | $3.4M |
| 2022 | $3.7M | $3.4M | $277K | $273K | $897K | $3.6M |
| 2021 | $3.6M | $3.1M | $1.4M | $279K | $1.4M | $3.3M |
| 2020 | $1.9M | $1.9M | $681K | $310K | $863K | $2.8M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1.4M to 28 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Kawartha Sexual Assault Centre$190K
- Community CARE Peterborough$132K
- The Elizabeth Fry Society of Peterborough$128K
- Community Counselling and Resource Centre$80K
- Big Brothers and Big Sisters Association of Peterborough Incorporated$80K
- Nogojiwanong Friendship Centre$75K
- Peterborough AIDS Resource Network$64K
- Youth Emergency Shelter of Peterborough Incorporated$62K
- New Canadians Centre-Peterborough$58K
- John Howard Society of Peterborough$53K
- One City Community Development Services$49K
- Trent Valley Learning Association Inc.$48K
- Peterborough Youth Services$46K
- Community Living Trent Highlands$43K
- Canadian Mental Health Association Haliburton Kawartha Pine Ridge Branch$40K
- Camp Kawartha Inc$38K
- ReFrame Peterborough International Film Festival$36K
- Peterborough Aids Resource Network$35K
- YMCA of Central East Ontario$27K
- Peterborough New Dance and Performance$19K
- Haliburton Kawartha Northumberland Peterborough Health Unit$13K
- Kawartha World Issues Centre$11K
- Corp of City of Peterborough$10K
- Findhelp Information Services$5,000
- All Saints Church$5,000
Received $276K from 22 charities:
- United Way of Greater Toronto$98K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$56K
- Canadahelps Canadon$24K
- Canadahelps Canadon$24K
- Corporation of the City of Peterborough Employee's Charity Trust$15K
- RBC Foundation$14K
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$8,670
- Remembering Otto and Marie Pick Charitable Foundation$8,000
- Aqueduct Foundation$5,700
- Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph in Canada$5,000
- Toronto Foundation$5,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$4,860
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$1,800
- United Way Golden Horseshoe$1,750
- Link Charity Canada Inc$1,500
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,280
- Canadian Medical Foundation$1,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$726
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$225
- United Way Haliburton Kawartha Lakes$130
- United Way Waterloo Region Communities$50
- United Way of Oxford$12
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- $40,000–79,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions8
- Total compensation, all staff$645K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
James Russel (secretary); Marcus Harvey (director); Nancy Fisher (director); Mohamed Farah (director); Marion Burton (director); Mike Baxter (director); Reem Ali (director); Sahar Afroz (director); Bruce Gibson (director); Adam Hopkins (director); Jeffrey Brock Maschke (treasurer).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from United Way Peterborough & District’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 105454482RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.