Legal Assistance of Windsor
Publicly funded institution · Windsor, Ontario · BN 119012490RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,572,158) as filed with the CRA.
Legal Assistance of Windsor is a charitable organization based in Windsor, Ontario, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. 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 $2.6M in revenue and $2.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 96% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2023, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $2,100.
Its highest-paid positions fell in the $120,000–159,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 16 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.7M in 2020 to $2.6M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Operation of a community legal & social work assistance in widnsor & essex county providing services to low income persons unable to pay for services
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.6M | $2.6M | — | — | — | $143K |
| 2023 | $2.3M | $2.4M | — | — | — | $161K |
| 2022 | $2M | $2M | — | — | — | $177K |
| 2021 | $1.8M | $1.9M | — | — | — | $101K |
| 2020 | $1.7M | $1.7M | $1.6M | — | — | $140K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2023
Received $2,100 from 2 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9992 positions
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- $40,000–79,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions16
- Total compensation, all staff$2M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Reem Bahdi (vice president); Emilia Coto (director); Daniel Bilodeau (director); Adrian Guta (director); Rielly McLaren (chair); Shelley Gilbert (secretary); Zakeih Zarabi (director); Joan Simpson (director); Adam Wydrzynski (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Legal Assistance of Windsor’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119012490RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.