Maggie's: Toronto Sex Workers Action Project
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 139837561RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,034,856) as filed with the CRA.
Maggie's: Toronto Sex Workers Action Project is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, 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 $1M in revenue and $1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 21% from donations, 60% from government, 12% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 13 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $562K.
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 22% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 75% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (4 positions in that band). The charity reported 4 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $561K in 2020 to $1M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 1 name.
In its own words
At maggie's toronto sex workers action project we provide comprehensize support to current and former sex workers across toronto and the gta. Our core programming includes street outreach case management harm reduction initiatives and public health services like vaccine and testing clinics. We also offer weekly drop-in programs for parents lgbtq2s+ and racialized communities alongside advocacy for those facing criminalization stigma and discrimination. Rooted in harm reduction model our approach emphasizes anti-racism anti-oppression and trauma-informed care affirming that all sex…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1M | $1M | $848K | $12K | — | $85K |
| 2023 | $1M | $1.1M | $130K | $45K | — | $87K |
| 2022 | $1.1M | $1M | $338K | $1,305 | — | $202K |
| 2021 | $841K | $734K | $708K | $280 | $0 | $155K |
| 2020 | $561K | $545K | $485K | $200 | — | $49K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $562K from 13 charities:
- The Peterson Foundation$205K
- Canadahelps Canadon$95K
- Canadahelps Canadon$95K
- United Way of Greater Toronto$75K
- Canadian Women's Foundation$29K
- MLSE Foundation$25K
- Toronto Foundation$18K
- Aqueduct Foundation$9,000
- Safelink Alberta Society$5,000
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$3,783
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$2,041
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$365
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$208
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions4
- Total compensation, all staff$573K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Chandra Ewing (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Maggie's: Toronto Sex Workers Action Project’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 139837561RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.