Canadian Centre for Gender & Sexual Diversity
Publicly funded institution · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 863207981RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,481,557) as filed with the CRA.
Canadian Centre for Gender & Sexual Diversity is a charitable organization based in Ottawa, 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 $1.2M in revenue and $1.5M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 10% from donations, 61% from government, 24% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 11 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $204K.
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 28% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 12 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
Workshops in schools to provide education on sexual and gender diversity and prevent discrimination and harassment development of educational learning materials for youth and youth educators supporting diversity and training on comprehensive sex education run educational forums and training days with youth to support knowledge sharing solidarity building and inclusion development of resources to to support youth and educators to address bullying discrimination and harassment developing programming with community partners
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.2M | $1.5M | $1.2M | $35K | — | $142K |
| 2023 | $1.3M | $1.3M | $1.1M | $98K | — | $443K |
| 2022 | $618K | $640K | $467K | $51K | — | $517K |
| 2021 | $614K | $812K | $587K | $70K | — | $540K |
| 2020 | $1.4M | $1.6M | $1.3M | $99K | — | $737K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $204K from 11 charities:
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$129K
- Canadahelps Canadon$30K
- Canadahelps Canadon$30K
- Unifor Social Justice Fund/Le fonds de justice sociale d'Unifor$10K
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$4,459
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$1,038
- Fondation Philantra Philantra Foundation$400
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$165
- BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust$60
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$50
- United Way of Saskatoon and Area$41
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 positions12
- Total compensation, all staff$817K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Reilly Vamplew (president); Blessing Timidi Digha (director); Yuri Hernandez (vice president); Fiona Mantha (treasurer); Simmi Dixit (director); Alena Peters (director); Emily O'Donohue (director); Kathryn Trevenen (secretary); Leah Ward (director); Debbie Owusu-Akyeeah (executive director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Canadian Centre for Gender & Sexual Diversity’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 863207981RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.