Wesley Urban Ministries Inc.
Publicly funded institution · Hamilton, Ontario · BN 119291946RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($25,740,434) as filed with the CRA.
Wesley Urban Ministries Inc. is a charitable organization based in Hamilton, Ontario, 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 $26M in revenue and $25.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 7% from donations, 83% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 49 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.1M.
Compared with 427 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 44% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $120,000–159,999 range (3 positions in that band). The charity reported 257 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $14.9M in 2020 to $26M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
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Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $26M | $25.7M | $23.4M | $471K | $0 | $7.2M |
| 2023 | $24.8M | $23.4M | $20.3M | $536K | — | $6.9M |
| 2022 | $17.7M | $17.6M | $15.8M | $630K | — | $5.6M |
| 2021 | $16.7M | $15.8M | $14.8M | $264K | — | $5.2M |
| 2020 | $14.9M | $15M | $13.6M | $303K | — | $3.8M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $1.1M from 49 charities:
- Greater Hamilton Food Share$273K
- Canadahelps Canadon$188K
- Canadahelps Canadon$188K
- United Way Golden Horseshoe$141K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$70K
- The Matt Foundation$40K
- In the Spirit Giving Foundation$25K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$23K
- Dofasco Employee Donations Fund Dofasco Inc.$20K
- Appleby United Church$14K
- The Guelph Community Foundation$10K
- The Ron and Nancy Clark Foundation$8,500
- The Charitable Corporation of The Rotary Club of Hamilton AM$6,000
- Canada Gives$5,000
- ST. Stephen United Church$5,000
- The United Church of Canada$4,470
- Vancouver Foundation$4,050
- The United Church of Canada Foundation$3,797
- Link Charity Canada Inc$2,900
- BenefAction Foundation$2,500
- Colborne Village United Church$2,313
- Steelworkers Humanity Fund Inc./ le Fonds Humanitaire des Metallos Inc.$2,250
- ST. Andrew's United Church$2,070
- The Canadian Mission Board of the Church of God in Canada$2,000
- Canadian National Christian Foundation$2,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9993 positions
- $80,000–119,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions257
- Total compensation, all staff$14.2M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Shirley Bainbridge (director); Klim Khomenko (director); Carla Lasota (director); Leanne Lindsay (director); Lebene Numekevor (director); Heather Padgett (director); Kaush Parameswaran (vice chair); Jim Parke (director); Julie Vernon (chair); Lita Barrie (director); Jim Cairney (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Wesley Urban Ministries Inc.’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119291946RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.