Inner-City Women's Initiatives Society
Publicly funded institution · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 891713976RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2022-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($334,583) as filed with the CRA.
Inner-City Women's Initiatives Society is a charitable organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia, 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, 2022, it reported $396K in revenue and $335K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 97% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2023, 4 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $142K.
Compared with 2,047 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 92% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (3 positions in that band). The charity reported 6 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $255K in 2020 to $396K in 2022. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
The society's programs includue a meal program advocacy hospital visits outreach support services distribution supplies accompaniments and assessment/referral
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2022
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | $396K | $335K | $330K | — | — | $195K |
| 2021 | $441K | $321K | $311K | — | — | $134K |
| 2020 | $255K | $228K | $224K | — | — | $14K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2023
Received $142K from 4 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- $1–39,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions6
- Total compensation, all staff$260K
Schedule 3 of its 2022 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2020)
Adrienne Jinkerson (co-secretary); Leanne McWilliams (treasurer); Doris Prest (chair); Greta Pauls (co-secretary); Kim Calder (director).
As listed on its 2020 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Inner-City Women's Initiatives Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 891713976RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.