Engineers Without Borders (canada) Organization/ingenieurs Sans Frontieres (canada) Organization
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 899801815RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-10-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,763,169) as filed with the CRA.
Engineers Without Borders (canada) Organization/ingenieurs Sans Frontieres (canada) Organization is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending October 31, 2024, it reported $1.7M in revenue and $1.8M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 46% from donations. In 2024, 20 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $274K.
Compared with 1,125 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 6% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 8 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $4.1M in 2020 to $1.7M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
Leadership development: working with university chapters and professional chapters to provide leadership and development opportunities to students and young professionals. Ewb hosts events such as an annual conference regional retreats and leadership retreats for ewb leaders to convene and participate in learning sessions. Ewb chapters run a range of activities for students on their campus including member learning events high school outreach systems change leadership and more around the topics of leveraging engineering and technological innovation to address challenges in canada and inter…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.7M | $1.8M | $836K | $227K | — | $61K |
| 2023 | $1.6M | $2.3M | $1.2M | $592K | — | $102K |
| 2022 | $1.8M | $2.1M | $975K | $526K | — | $809K |
| 2021 | $2.5M | $2.5M | $1.1M | $560K | — | $1.1M |
| 2020 | $4.1M | $3.8M | — | — | — | $0 |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $274K from 20 charities:
- Hamilton Community Foundation$75K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$66K
- The Calgary Foundation$51K
- Canadahelps Canadon$22K
- Canadahelps Canadon$22K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$13K
- The Anna & Louis Viglione Foundation$10K
- Somerset Foundation$5,000
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$2,195
- École de Technologie Supérieure$2,000
- Waterloo Region Community Foundation$1,784
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$1,200
- ATCO Electric Epic$1,200
- United Way of Calgary and Area$1,000
- United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes$520
- United Way of the Alberta Capital Region$506
- Canada Gives$500
- WCPD Foundation$375
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$243
- My Tribute Gift Foundation—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- $40,000–79,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions8
- Total compensation, all staff$789K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Dan Herman (interim chair); Don McMurtry (director); Lara Sergovich (vice chair); Ronald Omyonga (director); Diana Menzies (secretary); Sydney Thurn (treasurer); Beth Borody (director); Phil Guenther (director); Kevin Etienne (director); Pam Wolf (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Engineers Without Borders (canada) Organization/ingenieurs Sans Frontieres (canada) Organization’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 899801815RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.