Sedna Women's Shelter & Support Services Inc.
Publicly funded institution · Oshawa, Ontario · BN 107965691RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,411,360) as filed with the CRA.
Sedna Women's Shelter & Support Services Inc. is a charitable organization based in Oshawa, 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 $2.5M in revenue and $2.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 80% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 28 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $297K.
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 49% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 18 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Emergency shelter for abused women and their chidlren counselling for abused women and their children outreach program for abused 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 | $2.5M | $2.4M | $2.2M | $27K | — | $4.5M |
| 2023 | $2.7M | $2.3M | $2.1M | $17K | — | $4.4M |
| 2022 | $3.4M | $2.2M | $2M | $5,563 | — | $4.1M |
| 2021 | $2.5M | $2.1M | $1.9M | $3,429 | — | $2.9M |
| 2020 | $2.3M | $2.1M | $1.8M | $36K | — | $2.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $297K from 28 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$86K
- Canadahelps Canadon$86K
- Shoppers Foundation for Women's Health$39K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$18K
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$12K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$12K
- Calvin and Frances Hamm Foundation$11K
- Herman Kassinger Foundation$4,500
- Durham Community Foundation$4,000
- United Way of Greater Toronto$3,230
- Vancouver Foundation$2,700
- RBC Foundation$2,500
- Aqueduct Foundation$2,500
- Unifor Social Justice Fund/Le fonds de justice sociale d'Unifor$2,365
- Fondation RONA$1,762
- Oshawa Parkwood Rotary Club Charitable Foundation$1,500
- Faith United Church$1,250
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,000
- United Way of Durham Region$665
- The Noori Affordable Housing Foundation$600
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$527
- Zion Christian Reformed Church of Oshawa$512
- Deer Creek Cares Charitable Foundation$500
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$494
- Greenbank United Church$400
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions18
- Total compensation, all staff$1.7M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Diane Dickson-Kailan (president); Stephanie Cubitt (vice-president); Afshan Ahmad (treasurer); Paul Green (director); Melanie Jordison (director); Amber Bowen (director); Elizabeth Roy (ex-officio director); Nicole Emanuel (director); Kimberley Boulter (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Sedna Women's Shelter & Support Services Inc.’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 107965691RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.