Rise Women's Legal Centre
Charitable organization · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 763368099RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,828,583) as filed with the CRA.
Rise Women's Legal Centre is a charitable organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $3.1M in revenue and $2.8M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 41% from government, 12% from other charities. In 2024, 11 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $358K.
Compared with 299 community-service charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 49% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 81% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (8 positions in that band). The charity reported 24 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.3M in 2020 to $3.1M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
* student clinic program - upper year law students provide legal services to low income women and gender diverse clients under supervision of staff lawyers for academic credit * articling/incubator program - articling student and/or junior lawyer provides direct legal representation to low income women and gender diverse clients under supervision of staff lawyers * community legal clinic - legal education support referrals advocacy summary legal advice id replacement for clients in vancouver and the lower mainland (previously called the triage program) * virtual legal clinic - legal educa…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.1M | $2.8M | $2.4M | $89K | — | $1.3M |
| 2023 | $2.3M | $2.1M | $1.9M | — | — | $1M |
| 2022 | $1.6M | $1.3M | $1.2M | — | — | $771K |
| 2021 | $1.3M | $1.2M | $1M | $66K | — | $507K |
| 2020 | $1.3M | $987K | $842K | $4,637 | — | $377K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $358K from 11 charities:
- The Houssian Foundation$125K
- Gloria Baylis Foundation$76K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$51K
- Canadahelps Canadon$41K
- Canadahelps Canadon$41K
- Vancouver Foundation$15K
- ZQ Possibilities Foundation$5,000
- Vancity Community Foundation$2,500
- Makeway Foundation$500
- BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust$398
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$369
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9998 positions
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions24
- Total compensation, all staff$2.1M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Carly Teillet (vice president); Patricia Kostuk (treasurer); Eva Ureta (director); Risa Levine (director); Kaila Mikkelsen (director); Clea Parfitt (director); Mara Selanders (director); Shahnaz Rahman (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Rise Women's Legal Centre’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 763368099RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.