Equality Fund Fonds Égalité
Charitable organization · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 123037939RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($34,513,970) as filed with the CRA.
Equality Fund Fonds Égalité is a charitable organization based in Ottawa, Ontario, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $47.3M in revenue and $34.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 26% from government, 49% from other charities. In 2024, 18 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.8M.
Compared with 34 community-service charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 18% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 93% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $250,000–299,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 61 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $13.1M in 2020 to $47.3M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 18 names.
In its own words
Equality fund/fonds égalité (the 'organization' or 'ef') (formerly match international centre/centre match international) is a groundbreaking collaborative initiative that aims to deliver new momentum for women's movements across the globe. As a collective of partners its vision is clear: to shift power and resources to local women's rights organizations and leaders on the frontlines of building and sustaining a more gender equal world and as an effective way to fight poverty and inequality; to disrupt traditional funding mechanisms by applying a feminist approach to global change and attracti…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $47.3M | $34.5M | $4.1M | $1M | $22M | $17M |
| 2023 | $34.4M | $33.4M | $25.1M | $1.5M | — | $4.2M |
| 2022 | $21.8M | $18.6M | $11.8M | $1.2M | — | $3.2M |
| 2021 | $12.3M | $13.4M | $7.9M | $776K | — | $3.1M |
| 2020 | $13.1M | $6.5M | $4.2M | $1.6M | — | $2.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $1.8M from 18 charities:
- The Houssian Foundation$758K
- Nancy's Very Own Foundation$450K
- The Fairmount Foundation$250K
- The Trottier Family Foundation/la Fondation Familiale Trottier$125K
- RBC Foundation$100K
- Canadahelps Canadon$26K
- Canadahelps Canadon$26K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$15K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$10K
- Makeway Foundation$10K
- Red Chair Foundation$10K
- The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act$2,000
- Aqueduct Foundation$1,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,000
- PeopleSense Foundation$1,000
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$700
- Toronto Foundation$500
- Vancity Community Foundation$200
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $250,000–299,9992 positions
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions61
- Total compensation, all staff$7.2M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Diana Abou-Abbas (director); Sharon Avery (director); Temi Awagboro (director); Mebrat Beyene (co-chairperson); Sabina Bharwani (director); Sarah-Anne Gresham (director); Sophie Gupta (director); Lianne Hannaway (director); Lourdes Inga (director); Shalaka Joshi (director); Steve Mason (director); Francoise Moudouthe (director); Sawa Nakagawa (director); Theo Sowa (director); Shuyin Tang (director); Ilse Treurnicht (director); Marissa Wesley (director); Sara Wolfe (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Equality Fund Fonds Égalité’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 123037939RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.