West Lincoln Community CARE
Charitable organization · Smithville, Ontario · BN 852257278RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-07-31. Split of total expenditures ($830,365) as filed with the CRA.
West Lincoln Community CARE is a charitable organization based in Smithville, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending July 31, 2024, it reported $831K in revenue and $830K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 31% from donations, 7% from government. In 2024, 16 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $271K.
Compared with 2,470 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 41% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $40,000–79,999 range. The charity reported 2 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $486K in 2020 to $831K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
Thrift store food bank emergency financial assistance housing assistance christmas food back to school supplies mental health support and children's extra-cutticular support.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $831K | $830K | $698K | — | — | $668K |
| 2023 | $972K | $800K | $677K | — | — | $667K |
| 2022 | $798K | $676K | $568K | — | — | $495K |
| 2021 | $618K | $482K | $431K | — | — | $373K |
| 2020 | $486K | $421K | $375K | — | — | $237K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $271K from 16 charities:
- Greater Hamilton Food Share$112K
- The Branscombe Family Foundation$90K
- Canadahelps Canadon$19K
- Canadahelps Canadon$19K
- Food Banks Canada/Banques Alimentaires Canada$6,829
- Smithville Christian Reformed Church$5,977
- Hamilton Community Foundation$5,000
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$4,250
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$3,186
- Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de Niagara$1,750
- Caistor Centre Free Methodist Church$1,200
- David McAntony Gibson Foundation$984
- Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de Niagara$546
- Ker United Church$537
- Boyle Be in Christ Church$250
- The Food Bank of Waterloo Region—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions2
- Total compensation, all staff$272K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Cheryl Ganann (director); Bruce Hunter (treasurer); Janet Joyner (director); Lynn Witt (secretary); Shephen Witt (chair person); Janet Zantingh (vice chair); Paul McCarthy (director); Lisa Simpson (director); Brenda Walker (director); Michael Firmin (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from West Lincoln Community CARE’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 852257278RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.