Native Women's Shelter of Montréal
Publicly funded institution · Montreal, Quebec · BN 131684656RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($5,089,444) as filed with the CRA.
Native Women's Shelter of Montréal is a charitable organization based in Montreal, Quebec, 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 $5M in revenue and $5.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 6% from donations, 58% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 42 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $981K.
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 12% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 28 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $2.5M in 2020 to $5M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
The organization is a shelter for native women in difficulty. It provides counselling as well as room and board to these women and their children.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $5M | $5.1M | $3.8M | — | — | $1.1M |
| 2023 | $3.2M | $3.2M | $2.5M | — | — | $1.2M |
| 2022 | $5M | $4.7M | $4.4M | — | — | $1.3M |
| 2021 | $4.9M | $3.8M | $3.3M | — | — | $1M |
| 2020 | $2.5M | $2.4M | $1.9M | — | — | -$36K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $981K from 42 charities:
- La Fondation Rossy The Rossy Foundation$200K
- The Trottier Family Foundation/la Fondation Familiale Trottier$150K
- Pathy Family Foundation$116K
- Fondation du Dr Julien$100K
- Chamandy Foundation$95K
- The J W McConnell Family Foundation$50K
- Canadahelps Canadon$43K
- Canadahelps Canadon$43K
- The Foundation of Greater Montreal$30K
- Indigenous Peoples Resilience Fund$30K
- BenefAction Foundation$29K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$15K
- Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal$12K
- The Buttercup Foundation/ La Fondation Buttercup$10K
- The Sabourin Family Foundation$10K
- Plusoneplusone Canada$9,140
- Abundance Canada$8,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$7,274
- CN Employees' and Pensioners' Community Fund$6,920
- Fondation de la famille Zeller$5,000
- Frisia Foundation$5,000
- Fraser Family Foundation$5,000
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$4,051
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$3,178
- The Newall Family Foundation$3,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9998 positions
- Permanent full-time positions28
- Total compensation, all staff$2.1M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Lara Kramer (board member (2020)); Ida Labillois-Montour (board member (2020)); Autumn Godwin (secretary (2016)); Sarah Paul (treasurer (2019)); Dana-Marie Williams (president (2005)); Melanie Lefebvre (vice president (2019)); Justin Charland (board member(2018)); Lori Tarbell (board member (2022)); Lyne Dionne (director (2020)).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Native Women's Shelter of Montréal’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 131684656RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.