Urban Manor Housing Society
Publicly funded institution · Edmonton, Alberta · BN 130524358RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,080,805) as filed with the CRA.
Urban Manor Housing Society is a charitable organization based in Edmonton, Alberta, 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 $2.5M in revenue and $2.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 78% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $15K.
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 94% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 26 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
Urban manor is a harm reduction initiative to provide save stable housing for chronically hard-to-house men.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.5M | $2.1M | $2.1M | — | — | $1.1M |
| 2023 | $2.1M | $1.8M | $1.8M | — | — | $684K |
| 2022 | $1.9M | $1.9M | $1.9M | — | — | $426K |
| 2021 | $2.1M | $2M | — | — | — | $396K |
| 2020 | $1.9M | $1.9M | — | — | — | $301K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $15K from 1 charity:
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
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9998 positions
- Permanent full-time positions26
- Total compensation, all staff$1.3M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Damien Meardi (chairperson); Shawn Bhojani (treasurer); Maxine Morris (director); Dorothy Guch (secretary); Dwayne Samycia (director); John Whitmore (director); Barry Bentz (director); Rod Keys (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Urban Manor Housing Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 130524358RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.