Ishtar Women's Resource Society
Publicly funded institution · Langley, British Columbia · BN 118971753RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,235,998) as filed with the CRA.
Ishtar Women's Resource Society is a charitable organization based in Langley, 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, 2024, it reported $3.6M in revenue and $3.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 89% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 11 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $92K.
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 8% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 77% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (5 positions in that band). The charity reported 18 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $2.3M in 2020 to $3.6M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
Providing transition housing counselling and victim support services relating to: stopping the violence againsed women children who witness abuse community based victim services stage one emergency housing community outreach
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.6M | $3.2M | $2.3M | $7,525 | — | $2.6M |
| 2023 | $3.5M | $3M | $2.2M | $1,818 | — | $2.2M |
| 2022 | $2.6M | $2.7M | $2M | $12K | — | $1.7M |
| 2021 | $2.6M | $2.5M | $1.8M | $1,177 | — | $1.9M |
| 2020 | $2.3M | $2M | $1.6M | $1,669 | — | $1.8M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $92K from 11 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$23K
- Canadahelps Canadon$23K
- Shoppers Foundation for Women's Health$14K
- Canadian National Christian Foundation$13K
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$8,325
- Jeremy's Memorial Foundation Against Domestic Violence$5,024
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$1,978
- Fondation RONA$1,610
- BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust$1,277
- Township of Langley Professional Firefighter`s Local 4550 Charitable Society$1,000
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$21
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9995 positions
- $40,000–79,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions18
- Total compensation, all staff$2.5M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Dawn-Marie Hugh (director); Malachi Cameron (director); Tia Dawson (director); Diana Bryant (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Ishtar Women's Resource Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118971753RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.