Awhl-Assaulted Women's Helpline
Publicly funded institution · Etobicoke, Ontario · BN 127624443RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($4,264,375) as filed with the CRA.
Awhl-Assaulted Women's Helpline is a charitable organization based in Etobicoke, 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 $4.4M in revenue and $4.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 7% from donations, 93% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 11 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $102K.
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 64% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (6 positions in that band).
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $2.6M in 2020 to $4.4M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
The purpose of the charity is to provide crisis intervention information refereal and advocacy for assaulted women in ontario. The program included 24 hour crisis and counselling telephone line for abused women an or abused female victims of violence and female survivors of childhood abuse.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.4M | $4.3M | $3.9M | — | — | $469K |
| 2023 | $5M | $4.9M | $4.5M | — | — | -$91K |
| 2022 | $3.7M | $3.7M | $3.3M | — | — | $25K |
| 2021 | $4.1M | $4.1M | $3.8M | — | — | $39K |
| 2020 | $2.6M | $2.7M | $2.4M | — | — | $20K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $102K from 11 charities:
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$70K
- Canadahelps Canadon$14K
- The Dawson Family Sharing Foundation$5,000
- United Way of Greater Toronto$4,881
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$3,000
- Nathan and Lily Silver Family Foundation$2,000
- Toronto Foundation$1,215
- Legacy Private Trust Foundation$750
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$334
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$126
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$34
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9996 positions
- $40,000–79,99919 positions
- $1–39,99911 positions
- Total compensation, all staff$2.5M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Martha Ocampo (treasurer); Lee-Anne Lee (member); Sheila Phillips (chair); Sharon Simpson (member); Deidre Swatman (member); Sherry Lewis (vice chair); Paul Valois (member); Pippa Van Dam (member); Bev Wybrow (member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Awhl-Assaulted Women's Helpline’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 127624443RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.