Sexual Health Options Resources & Education Centre
Charitable organization · Kitchener, Ontario · BN 129795514RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,204,387) as filed with the CRA.
Sexual Health Options Resources & Education Centre is a charitable organization based in Kitchener, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $1.3M in revenue and $1.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 25% from donations, 22% from government, 43% from other charities. In 2024, 11 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $452K.
Compared with 1,125 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 45% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (10 positions in that band). The charity reported 10 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $726K in 2020 to $1.3M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Sexual health education workshops and info booths for all ages at schools and community centres. Small group sexual health programs for targeted populations including 2slgbtqia+ youth newcomers and people with developmental disabilities. Counselling services for all pregnancy options and outcomes. Clinic providing the abortion pill contraception and other reproductive health services. Free safer sex supplies and prenatal vitamins. Pregnancy support and outreach. Perinatal mental health support groups. Prenatal programs for 2slgbtqia+ families.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.3M | $1.2M | $1M | $30K | — | $470K |
| 2023 | $1.1M | $1.1M | $882K | $31K | — | $407K |
| 2022 | $1.1M | $967K | $776K | $4,998 | — | $365K |
| 2021 | $918K | $834K | $654K | $3,349 | — | $249K |
| 2020 | $726K | $723K | $572K | $2,200 | — | $164K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $452K from 11 charities:
- The Lyle Shantz Hallman Charitable Foundation$100K
- Canadahelps Canadon$95K
- Canadahelps Canadon$95K
- Waterloo Region Community Foundation$55K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$36K
- Community Foundations of Canada$29K
- United Way Waterloo Region Communities$22K
- Abundance Canada$12K
- Youth and Philanthropy Initiative Canada/Initiative Canada Jeunesse et Philanthropie$5,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,206
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$1,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,99910 positions
- Permanent full-time positions10
- Total compensation, all staff$938K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jane Arnold (president); Dan Brown (treasurer); Rosemary Killeen (secretary); Liana Sanelli (director); Alana Cattapan (director); Sonya Walton (vice-president); Julia Cluett-McCullough (director); Priyadashini Tjasan (director); Leona Bruijns (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Sexual Health Options Resources & Education Centre’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 129795514RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.