Seed Winnipeg Inc.
Publicly funded institution · Winnipeg, Manitoba · BN 119144434RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($4,300,878) as filed with the CRA.
Seed Winnipeg Inc. is a charitable organization based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, 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 $4.6M in revenue and $4.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 66% from government, 27% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 9 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $587K.
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 77% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (6 positions in that band). The charity reported 39 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
1. To advance education by providing employability entrepreneurial financial literacy small business and similar training. 2. To relieve poverty by assisting low-income individuals in developing savings to be used in furthering their education starting a business purchasing a home or acquiring basic necessities of life. 3.to conduct research on the potential of the above indicated and similar approaches to relieving poverty and disseminate the results of such research to the public.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.6M | $4.3M | $4.1M | — | — | $1.6M |
| 2023 | $4.2M | $4.3M | $4.1M | — | — | $2.7M |
| 2022 | $3.8M | $4M | $3.8M | — | — | $1.4M |
| 2021 | $4M | $3.9M | $3.7M | — | — | $1.5M |
| 2020 | $3.4M | $3.3M | $3.2M | — | — | $1.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $587K from 9 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9996 positions
- $40,000–79,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions39
- Total compensation, all staff$2.5M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Monika Feist (director); Sumegha Gupta (co-vice chairperson); Frank Parkes (treasurer); Brendan Reimer (director); Keely Richmond (chairperson); Abdikheir Ahmed (secretary); Catherine Biaya (director); Janesca Kydd (director); Yvan Larocque (director); Maria Talla (director); Nicole Starr (director); Seidu Mohammed (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Seed Winnipeg Inc.’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119144434RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.