Woodgreen Red Door Family Shelter
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 119303287RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($7,411,364) as filed with the CRA.
Woodgreen Red Door Family Shelter is a charitable organization based in Toronto, 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 $8.3M in revenue and $7.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 17% from donations, 74% from government, 6% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 46 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $996K.
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 44% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $120,000–159,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 65 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Emergency family shelter crisis counselling financial counselling provide beds meals childcare counselling referrals
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $8.3M | $7.4M | $6.6M | $379K | — | $7.9M |
| 2023 | $7.6M | $6.9M | $6.2M | $323K | — | $7M |
| 2022 | $9M | $7.1M | $6.2M | $300K | — | $6.4M |
| 2021 | $8.3M | $6.4M | $5.6M | $284K | — | $4.5M |
| 2020 | $6.7M | $6.1M | $5.1M | $347K | — | $2.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $996K from 46 charities:
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$145K
- Canadahelps Canadon$145K
- Canadahelps Canadon$145K
- BenefAction Foundation$113K
- The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation$100K
- Blue Sea Philanthropy Inc.$75K
- Aqueduct Foundation$60K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$25K
- Vancouver Foundation$15K
- Hallmark Giving$15K
- The Chawkers foundation$13K
- Toronto Foundation$12K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$11K
- Temerty Foundation$10K
- M.E.H. Foundation$10K
- The J W McConnell Family Foundation$10K
- The Newlands Family Foundation$10K
- The Panikkar Family Foundation$10K
- United Way of Greater Toronto$9,960
- Fairlawn Avenue United Church$8,910
- Nosreap Family Foundation$7,500
- RBC Foundation$5,000
- Mazon Canada$5,000
- The Iris Lustig Foundation$4,977
- Abundance Canada$4,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9992 positions
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- $40,000–79,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions65
- Total compensation, all staff$4.8M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Marissa Andersson (president & chair); Bryan Good (vice-chair); Shikha Gandhi (treasurer); Alan Mendoza (director); Anna Leon (director); Penelope Mathieson (director); Nahidia Mohammed (director); Maritza Sanchez (executive director/secretary); Crystal Ram (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Woodgreen Red Door Family Shelter’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119303287RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.