Paro Centre for Women's Enterprise
Publicly funded institution · Thunder Bay, Ontario · BN 885208777RR0001 · Educational Organizations Not Elsewhere Categorized · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($4,706,818) as filed with the CRA.
Paro Centre for Women's Enterprise is a charitable organization based in Thunder Bay, Ontario, classified by the CRA under educational organizations not elsewhere categorized. 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 $5.3M in revenue and $4.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 93% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2023, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $15.
Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 18 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $2.1M in 2020 to $5.3M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
Membership to network/support small micro-enterprises & for peer lending to circle members. Training of women to help them develop their business and provide financial assistance & support. Self-employment program with government agencies to assist women in developing their business with counselling ongoing financial support & physical presence. Workshops to solicit community partners to take action and assist with problem solving. Micro-business resource centre & library. A project to train women on how to market their products and how to operate a retail store.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $5.3M | $4.7M | — | — | — | $2.6M |
| 2023 | $3.4M | $2.8M | $2.6M | — | — | $2.1M |
| 2022 | $2.3M | $2.1M | $1.9M | — | — | $1.5M |
| 2021 | $2.9M | $2.5M | $2.3M | — | — | $1.3M |
| 2020 | $2.1M | $1.9M | $1.7M | — | — | $951K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2023
Received $15 from 1 charity:
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 positions18
- Total compensation, all staff$1.9M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Levina Collins (past president); Jodi Rose Richer (director); Anne Parr (president); Donna Brown (vice president); Dorris Shewchuk (secretary); Summer Reilly (director); Juliet Kego (director); Andryanna Gonko (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Paro Centre for Women's Enterprise’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 885208777RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.