Guelph - Wellington Women in Crises
Publicly funded institution · Guelph, Ontario · BN 118949429RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,873,036) as filed with the CRA.
Guelph - Wellington Women in Crises is a charitable organization based in Guelph, 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 $4.4M in revenue and $3.9M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 7% from donations, 82% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 24 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $235K.
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 15% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 33 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
Providing emergency temporary shelter to abused women and children; sexual assault counselling; human trafficking relief program
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.4M | $3.9M | $3M | $22K | — | $3.3M |
| 2023 | $4.1M | $3.5M | $3M | $4,768 | — | $2.8M |
| 2022 | $4M | $3.4M | $2.9M | $9,743 | — | $2.2M |
| 2021 | $4M | $3.4M | $2.9M | $83K | — | $1.7M |
| 2020 | $3.6M | $3.4M | $3M | $132K | $10K | $1.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $235K from 24 charities:
- United Way Community Services of Guelph and Wellington$61K
- Canadahelps Canadon$40K
- Canadahelps Canadon$40K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$20K
- The Charles Johnson Charitable Fund$18K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$15K
- Shoppers Foundation for Women's Health$13K
- The Colwyn and Jean Rich Foundation$10K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$6,661
- Waterloo Region Community Foundation$2,384
- ST Andrew's Presbyterian Church$1,500
- The Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation of the Diocese of Hamilton in Ontario$1,390
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$1,071
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,063
- Bethel Christian Reformed Church of Acton Ont.$1,000
- United Way Waterloo Region Communities$575
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$533
- The Synod of the Diocese of Niagara$500
- Eden Mills Presbyterian Church$475
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$349
- The Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Puslinch$200
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$160
- Drayton Pastoral Charge$150
- United Way of Greater Toronto$25
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9994 positions
- $40,000–79,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions33
- Total compensation, all staff$2.9M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Kaitlyn Armstrong (director); Andra Arnold (director); Amy Atkinson (vice chair); Jessica Gennuso (secretary); Sarah Gillies (director); Leah Levac (director); Karina McInnis (chari); Vanessa Miller (treasurer); Kate Parizeau (director); Rebekah Parshad (director); Christina Tomaino (director); Cara Ann Wehkamp (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Guelph - Wellington Women in Crises’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118949429RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.