Sistering-A Woman's Place
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 107983009RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($6,476,557) as filed with the CRA.
Sistering-A Woman's Place is a charitable organization based in Toronto, 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 $6.5M in revenue and $6.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 14% from donations, 78% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 33 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.4M.
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 51% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (4 positions in that band). The charity reported 41 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
Two drop in centers for marginalized and precariously housed women. Services offered include harm reduction kitchen spun studio and housing supports
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $6.5M | $6.5M | $5.8M | $201K | — | $2.7M |
| 2023 | $7.4M | $6.7M | — | $26K | — | $2.7M |
| 2022 | $6.8M | $6.5M | $3M | $143K | — | $2.1M |
| 2021 | $8M | $7M | $5.9M | $127K | $0 | $1.7M |
| 2020 | $5.9M | $6.1M | $5M | $104K | — | $812K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $1.4M from 33 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$403K
- Canadahelps Canadon$403K
- United Way of Greater Toronto$336K
- Daily Bread Food Bank$60K
- Blue Sea Philanthropy Inc.$50K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$28K
- Toronto Foundation$27K
- The Bespoke Foundation$16K
- The Loretto Ladies' Colleges and Schools$10K
- Aqueduct Foundation$5,500
- Abundance Canada$5,000
- Timothy Eaton Memorial Church$5,000
- Youth and Philanthropy Initiative Canada/Initiative Canada Jeunesse et Philanthropie$5,000
- Redpoll Foundation$5,000
- McCarthy Tetrault Foundation$5,000
- The J W McConnell Family Foundation$5,000
- McLean Smits Family Foundation$5,000
- Toronto District School Board$3,129
- Shoppers Foundation for Women's Health$2,500
- The K M Hunter Charitable Foundation$2,000
- R&M Lang Foundation$1,500
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$1,241
- Eglinton ST. George's United Church$1,000
- Canada Gives$1,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9994 positions
- $40,000–79,9996 positions
- Permanent full-time positions41
- Total compensation, all staff$4.2M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2023)
Anastasia Papakirykos (board member); Jennifer Choo Chee (board member); Kathryn Fox (board chair); Michaela Ferguson (board member); Paula Douglas (board member); Sarah Fruchtman (board member); Sharon Bell (board member); Vera Ranieri (board member).
As listed on its 2023 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Sistering-A Woman's Place’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 107983009RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.