Cnewa Canada
Charitable organization · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 867757502RR0001 · Support of Religion · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($6,046,385) as filed with the CRA.
Cnewa Canada is a charitable organization based in Ottawa, Ontario, classified by the CRA under support of religion. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $5.9M in revenue and $6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 61% from donations, 28% from other charities. In 2024, 81 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1M.
Compared with 2,238 religious charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 51% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 82% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (3 positions in that band). The charity reported 9 permanent full-time positions.
In its own words
Mandated by the holy father cnewa works for through and with the eastern catholic churches to build up the church alleviate poverty affirm human dignity and inspire hope. Cnewa supports the pastoral mission of the eastern catholic churches and supports their humanitarian mission through initiatives such as: caring for children; caring for marginalized adults; providing emergency support to the displaced and refugees; providing health care programs; and overseeing sustainability programs. Cnewa's mission is also to educate canadians about the history culture and reality of the eastern chu…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $5.9M | $6M | $5.4M | $430K | — | $7.4M |
| 2023 | $6.7M | $1.5M | $5M | $47K | — | $7.6M |
| 2022 | $11.5M | $9.1M | $8.5M | $343K | — | $7.3M |
| 2021 | $5.6M | $4.6M | — | — | — | -$39 |
| 2020 | $5.2M | $4.2M | $3.8M | $372K | $7,381 | $0 |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $1M from 81 charities:
- The Ukrainian Catholic Episcopal Corporation of Western Canada$459K
- Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation of the Diocese of Toronto in Canada$129K
- Canadahelps Canadon$62K
- Canadahelps Canadon$62K
- The Ukrainian Catholic Episcopal Corporation of Manitoba$28K
- The Catholic Archdiocese of Edmonton$25K
- Aqueduct Foundation$25K
- Celtic Cross Charitable Foundation Trust$24K
- Ukrainian Catholic Episcopal Corporation of Saskatchewan$22K
- Westminster Abbey Limited$20K
- Abundance Canada$18K
- BenefAction Foundation$17K
- The Brothers of the Christian Schools of Ontario$10K
- The Stephen and Michelene Worobetz Foundation$10K
- Vancouver Foundation$7,066
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$6,000
- The Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of New Westminster$5,055
- The Sisters of St. Joseph for the Diocese of Toronto in Upper Canada$5,000
- The Daly Foundation$5,000
- Mississauga Foundation$5,000
- Les Soeurs de la Visitation d' Ottawa$5,000
- The Dormition of the Mother of God Ukrainian Catholic Parish$5,000
- Les pauvres Clarisses de Valleyfield$5,000
- Toronto Council Knights of Columbus 1388 Charitable Welfare Trust$5,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$3,093
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- $40,000–79,9995 positions
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions9
- Total compensation, all staff$723K
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 Cnewa Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 867757502RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.