Immigrant Women Services Ottawa
Publicly funded institution · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 131976581RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,572,577) as filed with the CRA.
Immigrant Women Services Ottawa is a charitable organization based in Ottawa, 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 $2.8M in revenue and $2.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 5% from donations, 80% from government, 11% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 19 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $249K.
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 38% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 15 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.5M in 2020 to $2.8M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 14 names.
In its own words
Crisis intrvention service 6. 24-hour language interpretation & translation services 2. Long & short term counselling 7. Employment services: a)job search workshop b) computer training & c) english conversation 3. Support group 8. Language interpreter training 10. Public education outreach 4. Transitional & housing support 9. Information workshop 11. Diversity training 5. Children who witness violence program 12. Settlement & integration 13. Volunteer coordination
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.8M | $2.6M | $2.2M | — | — | $734K |
| 2023 | $2.4M | $2.3M | $2M | — | — | $588K |
| 2022 | $2M | $1.9M | $1.7M | — | — | $411K |
| 2021 | $1.8M | $1.7M | $1.5M | — | — | $326K |
| 2020 | $1.5M | $1.4M | $1.3M | — | — | $257K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $249K from 19 charities:
- Shoppers Foundation for Women's Health$80K
- Canadahelps Canadon$37K
- Canadahelps Canadon$37K
- The Peter Gilgan Foundation$20K
- TELUS Friendly Future Foundation$20K
- The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation$20K
- The Schulich Foundation$10K
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$5,141
- The Robert Campeau Family Foundation$3,000
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$3,000
- Unifor Social Justice Fund/Le fonds de justice sociale d'Unifor$3,000
- The Harry P Ward Foundation/la Fondation Harry P Ward$2,500
- Mazon Canada$2,500
- White Squirrel Cares Foundation$2,000
- Kids Up Front Foundation (Ottawa)$1,657
- Charitable Foundation$1,500
- United Way of Greater Toronto$650
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$58
- United Way of Regina$27
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
- $40,000–79,9999 positions
- Permanent full-time positions15
- Total compensation, all staff$1.9M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Meriem Bougrassa (chairperson); Aia Raafat (vice- chairperson); Bota Tuyakova (treasurer); Barbara Amona Purdie (secretary); Lorie-Ann McDonald (member); Tene Knibbs (member); Avril Espinosa-Malpica (member); Kylie Patrick (membe-at-large); Sa Yu (member); Brenda Kokorogba (member); Diana Andai (member); Ruth McKenzie (member); Seyi Okuribido-Malcolm (member); Tasha Truant (member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Immigrant Women Services Ottawa’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 131976581RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.