Charity BreakdownCanadian charity filings, itemized

Ernestine's Women's Shelter

Publicly funded institution · Etobicoke, Ontario · BN 101678969RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website

Your $100, itemizedErnestine's Women's ShelterFiscal year ended March 31, 2024
Charitable programs$71
Management & admin$18
Fundraising$11
TOTAL$100
RegisteredPublicly funded

Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,150,283) as filed with the CRA.

Ernestine's Women's Shelter is a charitable organization based in Etobicoke, Ontario, 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 $3.2M in revenue and $3.2M in expenditures.

Its funding that year was roughly 53% from government, 16% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 30 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $799K.

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 8% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 94% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 26 permanent full-time positions.

Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 15 names.

In its own words

Safety and client centered support services for women and children escaping violence and other forms of abuse. 32 bed residential shelter is accessible and crisis line operates 24/7. Advocacy and practical help with housing legal and health issues and connections to community supports. Individual and group counselling transitional and out reach services and child and youth centred programs. Food and clothing bank for clients in needs. Violence prevention programming in local elementary schools. Education and awareness workshops in the community.

Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.

The ledger, 2020–2024

YearRevenueSpendingProgramsFundraisingGifts outNet assets
2024$3.2M$3.2M$2.2M$335K—$2.6M
2023$2.9M$2.9M$2.2M$200K—$2.6M
2022$3.3M$3.1M$2.3M$258K—$2.6M
2021$3.4M$2.9M$2.6M$37K—$2.4M
2020$2.5M$2.5M$2.2M$86K—$1.8M

Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.

Money between charities, 2024

Received $799K from 30 charities:

As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.

What it pays

Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:

  • $80,000–119,9992 positions
  • $40,000–79,9993 positions
  • $1–39,9995 positions
  • Permanent full-time positions26
  • Total compensation, all staff$2.2M

Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.

Directors & trustees (2024)

Hero Landry (chair); Lynn Langrock (director); Tara McLenaghen (director); Cindy Luong (director); Pam Sharma (director); Kathy Mah (vice chair); Jennifer Xu (director); Julia Satov (director); Laurie Lupton (director); Luma Badran (director); Michelle Edwards (director); Gena Argitis (secretary); Julia Nicoara (treasurer); Anna Marie Dicesare (director); Nimra Syeda (director).

As listed on its 2024 return.

Check the source

Every figure on this page is from Ernestine's Women's Shelter’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 101678969RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.