Bridges for Women Society
Publicly funded institution · Victoria, British Columbia · BN 136019148RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,702,087) as filed with the CRA.
Bridges for Women Society is a charitable organization based in Victoria, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. 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 $1.7M in revenue and $1.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 73% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 11 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $95K.
Compared with 829 community-service institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 15% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 13 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
At bridges we believe in each individual's resilience and capacity to recover their strength and grow in confidence. We offer safe confidential programs to help reduce isolation while building personal and community supports. We are trauma-informed strengths-based and woman-centered and we aim to meet each person where they are at without judgement or expectation. We offer trauma counselling services. Counselling is included in program enrollment and is available at no low or sliding scale cost for eligible clients. The bridges employment program (bep) is a six-month group-based program fo…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.7M | $1.7M | $1.3M | $13K | — | $774K |
| 2023 | $1.7M | $1.6M | $1.3M | $19K | — | $804K |
| 2022 | $1.9M | $1.5M | $1.3M | $19K | — | $735K |
| 2021 | $1.7M | $1.5M | $1.3M | $23K | — | $388K |
| 2020 | $1.6M | $1.6M | $1.4M | $30K | — | $170K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $95K from 11 charities:
- The Victoria Foundation$42K
- United Way Southern Vancouver Island$20K
- Canadahelps Canadon$15K
- BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust$6,053
- The Chawkers foundation$5,000
- Laughton Charitable Trust$3,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$1,609
- Unitarian Universalist Community of Victoria Society$906
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$486
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$109
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$100
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9999 positions
- Permanent full-time positions13
- Total compensation, all staff$1.2M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Bonnie Lewis (co-chair); Debora Nawosad (treasurer); Caroline Mandrusiak (secretary).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Bridges for Women Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 136019148RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.