Kitchener-Waterloo Young Women's Christian Association
Publicly funded institution · Kitchener, Ontario · BN 118987643RR0001 · Support of Religion
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($11,100,505) as filed with the CRA.
Kitchener-Waterloo Young Women's Christian Association is a charitable organization based in Kitchener, Ontario, classified by the CRA under support of religion. 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 December 31, 2024, it reported $14M in revenue and $11.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 52% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 17 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $623K.
Compared with 29 religious institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 0% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 234 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
Housing programs before and after school programs early childhood education programs and career services.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $14M | $11.1M | $956K | $288K | — | $22M |
| 2023 | $11.5M | $11.6M | $10.2M | $163K | — | $19M |
| 2022 | $15.6M | $10.7M | $3.4M | — | — | $19.1M |
| 2021 | $13.5M | $9.2M | $8.3M | — | — | $14.1M |
| 2020 | $11.1M | $8.3M | $7.4M | — | — | $9.7M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $623K from 17 charities:
- Waterloo Region Community Foundation$154K
- United Way Waterloo Region Communities$125K
- The Lyle Shantz Hallman Charitable Foundation$90K
- Canadahelps Canadon$61K
- Canadahelps Canadon$61K
- Hockey Helps the Homeless/hockey Aide les Sans-Abri$50K
- Brenda & Dave Walden Family Foundation$31K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$21K
- Rotary Club of Kitchener-Westmount Charitable Foundation$10K
- Barry and Laurie Green Family Charitable Trust$5,000
- Kitchener-Conestoga Rotary Club Community Aid Fund$4,650
- The Gordon Linkletter Family Fund$4,000
- Unifor Social Justice Fund/Le fonds de justice sociale d'Unifor$2,365
- Abundance Canada$1,950
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$1,425
- Waterloo Christian Reformed Church$850
- The Food Bank of Waterloo Region—
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
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- $40,000–79,9996 positions
- Permanent full-time positions234
- Total compensation, all staff$7.7M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Karen Coviello (president); Ingrid Holbik (treasurer); Cassie Myers (vice president); Steph Snyder (director); Stephanie Braid (director); Tanya Chisholm (director); Linda Dietrich (director); Linda Kenny (vice president); Kristen Nolan (secretary); Helene ST-Amand (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Kitchener-Waterloo Young Women's Christian Association’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118987643RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.