Centre for Affordable Water and Sanitation Technology (cawst)
Charitable organization · Calgary, Alberta · BN 863751616RR0001 · Supportive Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($8,643,284) as filed with the CRA.
Centre for Affordable Water and Sanitation Technology (cawst) is a charitable organization based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under supportive health care. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $11.8M in revenue and $8.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 42% from donations, 14% from other charities. In 2024, 26 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.6M.
Compared with 85 health charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 46% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 78% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $250,000–299,999 range. The charity reported 49 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
CAWST improves access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation in developing countries by building the knowledge and skills ofpeople locally so they can create affordable solutions for themselves.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $11.8M | $8.6M | $6.4M | $941K | — | $3.5M |
| 2023 | $13.1M | $8.1M | $5.9M | $920K | — | $3.2M |
| 2022 | $8.9M | $9.2M | $6.7M | $1.1M | — | $2.9M |
| 2021 | $6.8M | $6.1M | $4.9M | $297K | — | $5.1M |
| 2020 | $9.9M | $6.6M | $4.9M | $158K | — | $3.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $1.6M from 26 charities:
- Broadfoot Family Foundation$701K
- The Calgary Foundation$342K
- The Peter Gilgan Foundation$100K
- The Hearn Family Foundation$100K
- Aqueduct Foundation$55K
- Canada Gives$53K
- The Jeffrey and Marilyn McCaig Family Foundation$50K
- Canadahelps Canadon$31K
- Canadahelps Canadon$31K
- The Tao Foundation$25K
- BenefAction Foundation$17K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$15K
- S.M. Blair Family Foundation$13K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$9,500
- Gary Whitelaw and Linda Mollenhauer Foundation$5,000
- United Way of Calgary and Area$4,234
- The Robert and Tatiana Ritchie Foundation$3,000
- The Byler Foundation$2,500
- The Donald And Eleanor Seaman Family Foundation$2,000
- Jewish Community Foundation of Calgary$1,800
- Vancity Community Foundation$1,500
- ST Paul's Anglican Church$906
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$500
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$150
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$75
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
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9994 positions
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions49
- Total compensation, all staff$4.9M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
David O'Brien (chair); Shauna Curry (ceo); Shawn Cornett (director); Camille Dow Baker (director); Jeffrey McCaig (director); Eric Monteith (director); Michael Broadfoot (director); Karen Macdonald (director); Marcos Lopez (director); Greta Raymond (director); Haseen Khan (director); Dan Limacher (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Centre for Affordable Water and Sanitation Technology (cawst)’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 863751616RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.