Cowichan Women Against Violence Society
Publicly funded institution · Duncan, British Columbia · BN 118878339RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($4,068,565) as filed with the CRA.
Cowichan Women Against Violence Society is a charitable organization based in Duncan, British Columbia, 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 $4.1M in revenue and $4.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 82% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 24 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $944K.
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 49% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (5 positions in that band). The charity reported 34 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $2.2M in 2020 to $4.1M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
Cwav society provides client-centered safety shelter counselling and advocacy in support of individual family and community well-being. Ongoing programs include somenos transition house women's night shelter homelessness prevention program stopping the violence women's counselling community based victim services police based victim services poverty law advocate men choose respect horizon's pre-employment program and several youth programs such as children who witness abuse counselling and the teen healthy relationships program. Cwav staff and volunteers bring a women's anti-violence expert…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.1M | $4.1M | $3.6M | $11K | — | $1.4M |
| 2023 | $3.5M | $3.4M | $3M | $6,217 | — | $1.3M |
| 2022 | $2.8M | $2.7M | $2.4M | — | — | $735K |
| 2021 | $2.4M | $2.4M | $2M | — | — | $622K |
| 2020 | $2.2M | $2.1M | $1.7M | — | — | $0 |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $944K from 24 charities:
- United Way British Columbia$289K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$155K
- United Way British Columbia$141K
- H W Siebens Charitable Foundation$134K
- The Annual Foundation$50K
- Canadahelps Canadon$33K
- Canadahelps Canadon$33K
- Women's Shelters Canada$25K
- TELUS Friendly Future Foundation$20K
- Canadian Women's Foundation$15K
- MR. and MRS. P.a. Woodward's Foundation$12K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$9,123
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$8,000
- The Victoria Foundation$6,750
- Vancouver Foundation$5,400
- Mathisen Family Private Foundation$2,000
- Shoppers Foundation for Women's Health$1,305
- BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust$1,270
- Anglican Synod of the Diocese of British Columbia$750
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Cowichan Valley$685
- Crofton Community Centre Society$500
- Cowichan Valley Monthly Meeting Religious Society of Friends$500
- Christian Science Society Duncan$500
- Sylvan Pastoral Charge$200
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9995 positions
- $40,000–79,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions34
- Total compensation, all staff$3.2M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Kristi Koons (board chair); Kate Chandler (co-chair); Ebony Clark (secretary); Jamie Court (treasurer); Kate Slade (director); Gifty Suebeh-Dunn (director); Natasha Cools (director); Nora Lingstone (director); Staci Nelson (director); Erin Blondeau (director); Jamie Garneau (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Cowichan Women Against Violence Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118878339RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.