Atira Women's Resource Society
Publicly funded institution · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 106736101RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($89,557,621) as filed with the CRA.
Atira Women's Resource Society is a charitable organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia, 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 $86.8M in revenue and $89.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 83% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 22 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $851K.
Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 418 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $45.1M in 2020 to $86.8M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 13 names.
In its own words
The society operates 11 housing programs for women and children in the whiterock and surrey areas one in richmond one in burnaby and 18 in vancouver. The society provides support programs for women and children who have witnessed and/or experienced abuse legal advocacy outreach programs for women who are first nations/métis/inuit support to high risk pregnancy and early parenting women outreach to women who are homeless or at risk of homelessness and women who are older and who are younger. The society is also involved in the construction and redevelopment of social housing projects in …
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $86.8M | $89.6M | — | $290K | — | $9.5M |
| 2023 | $82.1M | $82.8M | $73.9M | $208K | — | $11.3M |
| 2022 | $74.7M | $74.4M | $67.7M | $51K | — | $7.8M |
| 2021 | $66.6M | $65.8M | $59.7M | $20K | — | $6.1M |
| 2020 | $45.1M | $45.1M | $40.4M | $132K | — | $4.9M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $851K from 22 charities:
- Vancouver Foundation$332K
- Community Foundations of Canada$250K
- Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society$125K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$69K
- Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society$47K
- Canadahelps Canadon$10K
- BenefAction Foundation$6,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$5,169
- Youth and Philanthropy Initiative Canada/Initiative Canada Jeunesse et Philanthropie$2,500
- United Way British Columbia$1,084
- Peninsula United Church$954
- The Houssian Foundation$564
- Vancity Community Foundation$235
- BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust$200
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$165
- Vancity Community Foundation$154
- Parish of Holy Trinity$100
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$98
- Vancity Community Foundation$51
- Vancity Community Foundation$50
- Vancity Community Foundation$50
- Vancity Community Foundation$34
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9994 positions
- $80,000–119,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions418
- Total compensation, all staff$51.6M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jessie Adcock (director); Anne Kinvig (director); Margaret Lucas (director); Hilary Marks (director); Morgane Oger (director); Sienna Richardson (director); Jamal Temirova (director); Sarah Wang (director); Elva Kim (vice-chair); Amy McCallion (director); Michelle Yung (director); Miriam Sobrino (director); Taha Rizwan (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Atira Women's Resource Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 106736101RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.