B.W.S.S.: Battered Women's Support Services Association
Charitable organization · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 130361611RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,955,646) as filed with the CRA.
B.W.S.S.: Battered Women's Support Services Association is a charitable organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $4.1M in revenue and $4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 22% from donations, 45% from government. In 2024, 22 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $2.1M.
Compared with 1,125 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 16% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 8 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $2.5M in 2020 to $4.1M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
Stopping the violence community based victim services support groups legal advocacy women's training and leadership employment program for indigenous and immigrant women indigenous women's program my sister's closet (thrift store) youth ending violence transitions program for women and girls exiting and transitioning out of sex work; feminists deliver and beyond; black women's support group; ciris line 24/7; gender equity learning and knowledge exchange; justice centre
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.1M | $4M | $2.8M | $228K | — | -$424K |
| 2023 | $3.5M | $2.9M | $2.5M | $26K | — | $653K |
| 2022 | $2.8M | $2.8M | $2.7M | $93K | — | $935K |
| 2021 | $3.5M | $3.2M | $3M | $112K | — | $747K |
| 2020 | $2.5M | $2.5M | $2.3M | $235K | — | $391K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $2.1M from 22 charities:
- Vancouver Foundation$539K
- Al Roadburg Foundation$500K
- Moffat Foundation Inc.$400K
- Canadahelps Canadon$302K
- Canadahelps Canadon$302K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$10K
- Makeway Foundation$10K
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$7,250
- Canada Gives$5,000
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$4,162
- Beedie Foundation$2,500
- Lohn Foundation$2,000
- Point Grey Inter-Mennonite Fellowship$2,000
- The Illahie Foundation$2,000
- BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust$1,901
- Parish of ST Mary's Kerrisdale$1,425
- Canadian-Iranian Foundation$1,000
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$806
- United Way British Columbia$517
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$230
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$200
- The Sisters of Instruction of the Child Jesus—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9997 positions
- $40,000–79,9998 positions
- $1–39,99910 positions
- Permanent full-time positions8
- Total compensation, all staff$1.5M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2023)
Jennifer Johnstone (chair); Cecilia Point (board member); Jennifer Mackie (board member); Erica Ifil (board member); Angela Macdougall (executive director).
As listed on its 2023 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from B.W.S.S.: Battered Women's Support Services Association’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 130361611RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.