Halton Women's Place
Charitable organization · Burlington, Ontario · BN 107462558RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($5,236,008) as filed with the CRA.
Halton Women's Place is a charitable organization based in Burlington, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $6.1M in revenue and $5.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 15% from donations, 50% from government, 20% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 38 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $539K.
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 30% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 87% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 34 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $3.8M in 2020 to $6.1M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
We operate two emergency shelters in Halton Region for abused women and their dependent children. Staff are on duty 24/7 and meals clothing information transportation and other related services are available. We operate a 24 hour crisis telephone line and an online web chat counselling service. We provide transitional support to clients as well as community referrals and court support. We have educators that present to Halton Region classrooms regarding healthy relationships either in person or through online platforms. We have a partnership with a housing provider to provide transit…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $6.1M | $5.2M | $4.2M | $687K | $0 | $10M |
| 2023 | $5M | $4.8M | $4M | $524K | — | $9.1M |
| 2022 | $5.6M | $4.1M | $3.7M | $430K | $0 | $8.9M |
| 2021 | $5.8M | $4.2M | $42.3M | $399K | — | $7.2M |
| 2020 | $3.8M | $3.9M | $3.1M | $391K | — | $5.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $539K from 38 charities:
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$153K
- Shoppers Foundation for Women's Health$72K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$71K
- Oakville Community Foundation$67K
- Canadahelps Canadon$31K
- Canadahelps Canadon$31K
- Burlington Community Foundation$23K
- Sam and Roma Mercanti Foundation$10K
- Toronto Foundation$9,000
- The Gift of Giving Back$7,863
- BenefAction Foundation$6,650
- Doane Grant Thornton Foundation$5,500
- United Way of Greater Toronto$5,351
- John Deere Foundation of Canada$5,000
- RBC Foundation$5,000
- The Walmley Foundation$5,000
- Harrison McCain Foundation$5,000
- The Alix and Robert Jickling Foundation$4,000
- Nora's Gift Foundation$2,500
- The Synod of the Diocese of Niagara$2,500
- Doane Grant Thornton Foundation$2,500
- Unifor Social Justice Fund/Le fonds de justice sociale d'Unifor$2,365
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$2,278
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,957
- The WB Family Foundation$1,500
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
- $80,000–119,9995 positions
- $40,000–79,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions34
- Total compensation, all staff$3.4M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Leslie Starr-Hemburrow (chair); Derek Payne (director); Barb Love (director); Irene Santos (vice chair); Rufaida Mohammed (director); Michelle Small (director); David Vandenberg (director); Paul Macdiarmid (treasurer).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Halton Women's Place’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 107462558RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.