Agape Centre in Cornwall Ontario Tax Return Information from Canada Revenue – Boggling by Jamie Gilcig – Oct 24, 2013 By admin on October 24, 2013 AblaisAGAPECornwall Ontario – When I wrote my piece about Alyssa Blais and the Agape Centre sending out nasty legal letters to former Agape people from Ottawa Law firm Emond Harnden it was a surprise preamble of an expose I’d been preparing. The fact that this charity had the audacity to challenge someone in this manner is odd enough; but today I myself received a phone call from someone claiming to be from the law firm. It reminded me of a quote Sean Connery once used in a movie so I decided to start digging further. I mean someone takes a swing at you it kinda makes you want to take a swing back, right? So I went to the CRA website and decided to pull the info on The Agape Centre going back several years. Frankly I was shocked. Can you imagine an organization spending nearly $1M per year in a city of only 46,000? How many different individuals are served per year? Food bank we’re talking which is the main purpose of the Agape; not the junk store. 100? 200? 1000? If you divide 1000 by the yearly budget you could theoretically donate close to $10,000 per year to each person served which is probably an awful lot more than what most people get that use the Agape Centre regularly. In 2010 Judy Dancause was still in charge. BOARD LINK They had 1 staffer in the $40K- $79K range and 9 in the up to $39 range. for a total of 10 full time and 15 part time staff with a budget of $470,170.00. They reported total assets of $ 1,118,851.00; chiefly in real estate ($ 1,126,744 before amortization). Under Liabilities they reported $ 602,544 in deferred revenue (I’m not even sure what that is!) Under revenue they issued tax receipts for $ 139,699 in gifts. $ 134,092 for gifts with a receipt not given. $ 106,981 in funds raised. $ 491,114 in sale of goods for a total amount of $ 934,869! Expenditures: Advertising and promotion $ 8,314, Travel and vehicle expenses $ 16,835, Interest and bank charges $ 10,234, Office supplies and expenses $ 11,254, Occupancy costs $ 87,289, Professional and consulting fees $ 12,534. Education and training for staff and volunteers $ 2,062 Total expenditure on all compensation $ 470,170 Amortization of capitalized assets $ 68,270 Other expenditures not included in the amounts above $ 147,404 Total Expenditures $ 834,366 That left nearly $100K more in revenue if my weak math skills are getting this? Of interest: Total expenditures on charitable programs $ 537,163 - So Agape raised nearly $1M to spend nearly $900K on just over $500K in services in 2010. Total expenditures on management and administration $ 68,498 - that’s actually a fairly reasonable number. Total expenditures on fundraising $ 228,706 That’s an epic fail when you spend nearly twice as much on fundraising as you actually raise! Now for 2011. In 2011 CRA started what they call a Quick view of a charity report. Here is what Agape stated that their programs were. Programs and activities: Help the needy by operating the following programs: 1. Food bank 2. Soup kitchen 3. Clothing and furniture outlet 4. Snowsuit program Those are all need
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