Canadian Immigrant Women's Association
Publicly funded institution · Calgary, Alberta · BN 118823657RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($18,423,022) as filed with the CRA.
Canadian Immigrant Women's Association is a charitable organization based in Calgary, Alberta, 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 $19.2M in revenue and $18.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 90% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 18 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $852K.
Compared with 427 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 75% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $250,000–299,999 range. The charity reported 151 permanent full-time positions.
In its own words
Services and programming for immigrant and refugee women's in the areas of settlement and integration family counseling literacy and language training employment training legal support health-related programs seniors programs youth mentoring home visitation childcare translation and interpretation and research projects.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $19.2M | $18.4M | $17.6M | — | — | $2.1M |
| 2023 | $17.6M | $17.2M | — | — | — | $1.3M |
| 2022 | $14.9M | $14.8M | — | — | — | $890K |
| 2021 | $14.3M | $14.2M | $13.8M | $3,462 | — | $783K |
| 2020 | $14.6M | $14.6M | $14.1M | $1,656 | — | $684K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $852K from 18 charities:
- Calgary Learns Association$273K
- United Way of Calgary and Area$203K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$70K
- United Way of Calgary and Area$64K
- Canadahelps Canadon$53K
- Canadahelps Canadon$53K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$51K
- Calgary Learns Association$30K
- RBC Foundation$25K
- The Calgary Foundation$18K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$3,924
- RBC Foundation$2,500
- Jays CARE Foundation$1,800
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$1,000
- ATCO Electric Epic$400
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$100
- Calgary Association of Lifelong Learners$100
- United Way of Greater Toronto$50
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $250,000–299,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions151
- Total compensation, all staff$12.6M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Canadian Immigrant Women's Association’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118823657RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.