Ma Mawi-Wi-Chi-Itata Centre Inc.
Publicly funded institution · Headingley, Manitoba · BN 130626567RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($23,617,937) as filed with the CRA.
Ma Mawi-Wi-Chi-Itata Centre Inc. is a charitable organization based in Headingley, Manitoba, 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 $23.6M in revenue and $23.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 77% from government, 6% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 17 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.5M.
Compared with 427 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 51% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (10 positions in that band). The charity reported 139 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
community care emergency and long term shelter family services outreach employment and skills training youth and senior supports cultural teaching and support clinical services emergency care and support home nutrition teaching rapid testing and vaccines mobile vaccine clinic COVID supports
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $23.6M | $23.6M | $21.8M | — | — | -$61K |
| 2023 | $28.1M | $28.2M | $26.2M | — | — | -$66K |
| 2022 | $35.9M | $35.9M | $33.6M | — | — | -$18K |
| 2021 | $22.7M | $22.7M | $709K | — | — | -$67K |
| 2020 | $18.9M | $18.9M | $17M | — | — | -$64K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $1.5M from 17 charities:
- The Winnipeg Foundation$1.1M
- Canadahelps Canadon$93K
- Canadahelps Canadon$93K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$69K
- Makeway Foundation$30K
- Manitoba Association of Women's Shelters Inc.$26K
- Canada Post Community Foundation/Fondation Communautaire de Postes Canada$5,000
- Abundance Canada$3,186
- Hope Mennonite Church Inc$2,500
- Waterfront Foundation Inc.$2,000
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$1,100
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$1,000
- Lawton Partners Charitable Giving Foundation Inc.$1,000
- Musaico Inc.$750
- BenefAction Foundation$594
- The Manitoba Museum$450
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$126
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,99910 positions
- Permanent full-time positions139
- Total compensation, all staff$11.1M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Gary Delaronde (chairperson); Heather Ranville (director); Jeffrey Betker (treasurer); Marilyn Paul (director); Mary Mahler (secretary); Marileen Bartlett (director); Annetta Armstrong (director); Jade Harper (director); Tracie Leost (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Ma Mawi-Wi-Chi-Itata Centre Inc.’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 130626567RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.