Ontario · Registered charity
K-W WORKING CENTRE FOR THE UNEMPLOYED
K-W WORKING CENTRE FOR THE UNEMPLOYED (Ontario) receives grants from 108 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$14,460,627 to it, the largest being THE LYLE SHANTZ HALLMAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION (C$3,397,083). 67 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- C$26M
- Funders on record
- 108
- Grants received
- C$14M
- Net assets
- C$14M
What K-W Working Centre for the Unemployed does
Ongoing programs
The Working Centre is a mature community-based organization since 1982 creating access to tools for those without work those without housing and the most vulnerable in the community. We build dynamic spaces where community forms and people find places of belonging practical supports and ways to contribute. - St. John's Kitchen serves a daily meal to people who experience homelessness/are at risk - Street Outreach workers support people to problem-solving issues of health care income housing legal issues. - Housing - Hospitality House Water Street House affordable housing emergency Shelter. - Money Matters - Financial problem-solving supports income tax support. - Job Search Resource Centre. - Job Cafe offers creative minimum wage work. - Community Tools Projects - service to community opportunities for engagement and volunteering - includes Queen Street Commons Cafe and Fresh Ground Cafe Maurita's Kitchen (commercial comissary kitchen) Computer Recycling Recycle Cycles Community Bike Shop Green Door Clothing and Arts Space Worth a Second Look Housewares and Furniture
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 2023 to 2024, from C$20M to C$29M (+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 51% · 2018 45% · 2019 44% · 2020 48% · 2021 59% · 2022 64% · 2023 64% · 2024 57%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
46% of K-W WORKING CENTRE FOR THE UNEMPLOYED’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (2% 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 broadened from 41 funders to 54 funders, grant income rose C$356k → C$3.8M.
From the CRA filings of K-W WORKING CENTRE FOR THE UNEMPLOYED’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 108 funders by total. 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
K-W WORKING CENTRE FOR THE UNEMPLOYED has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 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 K-W WORKING CENTRE FOR THE UNEMPLOYED.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 74% · 2019 63% · 2020 34% · 2021 26% · 2022 39% · 2023 60% — 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.
How long its funders stay
53% of K-W WORKING CENTRE FOR THE UNEMPLOYED's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
89% of K-W WORKING CENTRE FOR THE UNEMPLOYED'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$678k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 regions 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
K-W WORKING CENTRE FOR THE UNEMPLOYED runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 559 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 559 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government revenue K-W WORKING CENTRE FOR THE UNEMPLOYED reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 57% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like K-W WORKING CENTRE FOR THE UNEMPLOYED
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
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds K-W WORKING CENTRE FOR THE UNEMPLOYED?
- K-W WORKING CENTRE FOR THE UNEMPLOYED (Ontario) receives grants from 108 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$14,460,627 to it, the largest being THE LYLE SHANTZ HALLMAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION (C$3,397,083). 67 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does K-W WORKING CENTRE FOR THE UNEMPLOYED have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 108 organizations giving C$14,460,627 in grants to K-W WORKING CENTRE FOR THE UNEMPLOYED, 67 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of K-W WORKING CENTRE FOR THE UNEMPLOYED?
- THE LYLE SHANTZ HALLMAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$3,397,083 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like K-W WORKING CENTRE FOR THE UNEMPLOYED find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ontario.
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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 108 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