Ontario · Registered charity
HOUSING HELP CENTRE FOR HAMILTON AND AREA
HOUSING HELP CENTRE FOR HAMILTON AND AREA (Ontario) receives grants from 4 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$190,859 to it, the largest being HAMILTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (C$86,250). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- C$6.8M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- C$191k
- Net assets
- C$1.0M
What Housing Help Centre for Hamilton and Area does
Ongoing programs
Housing help centre - hamilton and area (the 'centre') is a non-profit social service agency that has acted as a portal to housing services since 1988. The centre provides information advocacy and support to people who need housing especially people with low income and people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. The centre facilitates the distribution of government funding to those at risk and/or their landlords and creditors. The centre also facilitates youth trusteeship distributions.
As stated on its FY2024 T3010.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from C$1.7M to C$2.5M (+44%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 99% · 2023 100% · 2024 100%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
24% of HOUSING HELP CENTRE FOR HAMILTON AND AREA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (8% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell C$83k → C$3k.
From the CRA filings of HOUSING HELP CENTRE FOR HAMILTON AND AREA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
HOUSING HELP CENTRE FOR HAMILTON AND AREA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund HOUSING HELP CENTRE FOR HAMILTON AND AREA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 94% · 2018 87% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 91% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of HOUSING HELP CENTRE FOR HAMILTON AND AREA's grant income comes from Ontario funders.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$86k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 region is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
HOUSING HELP CENTRE FOR HAMILTON AND AREA's revenue grew 42% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,748 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government revenue HOUSING HELP CENTRE FOR HAMILTON AND AREA reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 100% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like HOUSING HELP CENTRE FOR HAMILTON AND AREA
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every charity on the CRA register — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Ontario
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds HOUSING HELP CENTRE FOR HAMILTON AND AREA?
- HOUSING HELP CENTRE FOR HAMILTON AND AREA (Ontario) receives grants from 4 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$190,859 to it, the largest being HAMILTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (C$86,250). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HOUSING HELP CENTRE FOR HAMILTON AND AREA have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 4 organizations giving C$190,859 in grants to HOUSING HELP CENTRE FOR HAMILTON AND AREA, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOUSING HELP CENTRE FOR HAMILTON AND AREA?
- HAMILTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$86,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOUSING HELP CENTRE FOR HAMILTON AND AREA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ontario.
These figures are read directly from the CRA's published T3010 data: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 4 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · View the T3010 on the CRA register