Charity BreakdownCanadian charity filings, itemized

Canadian Women's Foundation

Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 129855607RR0001 · Foundations · website

Your $100, itemizedCanadian Women's FoundationFiscal year ended March 31, 2024
Charitable programs$91
Gifts to other charities$7
Fundraising$1
Management & admin$1
TOTAL$100
RegisteredPublicly funded

Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($17,204,413) as filed with the CRA.

Canadian Women's Foundation is a public foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. 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 $18.2M in revenue and $17.2M in expenditures.

Its funding that year was roughly 60% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 39 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.7M.

Compared with 23 grantmaking institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 96% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 86% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 33 permanent full-time positions.

As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 231 qualified donees totalling $6.3M in 2024, the largest being $100K to The Circle on Philanthropy. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 14 names.

In its own words

1. We fund programs that help women to rebuild their lives after escaping violence and prevention programs that teach youth ow to create healthy relationships. 2. We fund life-changing progrmas designed especially for low-income women. 3. We fund dynamic programs for girls that explore science and technology do physical activities become media-literate learn to think critically and take on leadership in a supportive all-girl environment. 4. We fund grassroots organizations and programs that help women and girls in canada excape sex trafficking and rebuild their lives and that work to …

Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.

The ledger, 2020–2024

YearRevenueSpendingProgramsFundraisingGifts outNet assets
2024$18.2M$17.2M$86.2M$1.2M$6.3M$18.3M
2023$68M$69.2M$7.6M$960K$59.7M$17.3M
2022$34M$33.2M$5.6M$1.3M$25.7M$18.5M
2021$30.2M$28.4M$3.6M$407K$24.1M$17.8M
2020$19.5M$20.5M$4.2M$1.2M$14.1M$16M

Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.

Money between charities, 2024

Granted $6.3M to 231 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:

Full grant ledger — all 231 grants

Received $1.7M from 39 charities:

As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.

What it pays

Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:

  • $200,000–249,9991 position
  • $160,000–199,9991 position
  • $120,000–159,9993 positions
  • $80,000–119,9995 positions
  • Permanent full-time positions33
  • Total compensation, all staff$3.7M

Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.

Directors & trustees (2024)

Dawn Lavell-Harvard (director); Lisa O'Connor (director); Laurie Young (director); Jaspreet Hothi (director); Meenu Sikand (director); Olivia Sobey (director); Margaret Moss (director); Sandy Vander Ziel (director); Kimberly Hu (director); Sarah Mariani (director); Kim Ulmer (director); Lori Flinders (director); Oyinlola Iwaeni (director); Roxanne Pereira (director).

As listed on its 2024 return.

Check the source

Every figure on this page is from Canadian Women's Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 129855607RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.