Focus for Ethnic Women Waterloo Region Inc
Publicly funded institution · Cambridge, Ontario · BN 131611337RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($91,521) as filed with the CRA.
Focus for Ethnic Women Waterloo Region Inc is a charitable organization based in Cambridge, Ontario, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. 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 $151K in revenue and $92K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 56% from government, 38% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 5 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $41K.
Compared with 1,147 community-service institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 48% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $62K in 2020 to $151K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
A two hour interactive program every sunday for new refugees to assist with heir intergration into canadian society. Also a conversation circle for the new refugees on most monday evenings.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $151K | $92K | $78K | — | — | $178K |
| 2023 | $51K | $40K | $37K | — | — | $119K |
| 2022 | $69K | $44K | $41K | — | — | $108K |
| 2021 | $79K | $50K | $48K | — | — | $83K |
| 2020 | $62K | $66K | $64K | — | — | $54K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $41K from 5 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Total compensation, all staff$39K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Abigail Pujols Calero (director); Shelly Ackie (treasurer); Pamela Bryden (secretary); Yvette Kayode (director); Katherine Laycock (secretary); Sharada Namasivayam (director); Alka Seoni (director); Ping Zhou.
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Focus for Ethnic Women Waterloo Region Inc’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 131611337RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.