Newcomer Women's Services Toronto
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 119056455RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($4,181,402) as filed with the CRA.
Newcomer Women's Services Toronto 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 $4.2M in revenue and $4.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 99% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 6 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $141K.
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 54% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 51 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $2.2M in 2020 to $4.2M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
Providing instructions in english to newcomers to canada; civic engagement and arts and culture activities providing life skills instructions; child minding activities pre-employment training and job development assistance volunteering opportunities drop-in peer support and networking mentoring and coaching
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.2M | $4.2M | $3.8M | — | — | $342K |
| 2023 | $2.6M | $2.5M | $2.3M | — | — | $307K |
| 2022 | $2.1M | $2.2M | $2M | — | — | $251K |
| 2021 | $2.1M | $2.1M | $2M | — | — | $310K |
| 2020 | $2.2M | $2.2M | $2M | — | — | $306K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $141K from 6 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9999 positions
- Permanent full-time positions51
- Total compensation, all staff$2M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Marie Catherine (director); Jill Wagman (director); Samantha Jackson (chair); Bo Wang-Frape (treasurer); Bike Balkanci (director); Shazia Tareen (director); Mina Etezadi (director); Alisha Parkash (secretary); Maleehah Shams (director); Diego Adrian (director); Afshan Razvi (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Newcomer Women's Services Toronto’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119056455RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.