South Asian Women's Centre
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 129426425RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($634,264) as filed with the CRA.
South Asian Women's Centre 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 $650K in revenue and $634K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 62% from government, 27% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 11 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $349K.
Compared with 1,890 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 55% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (4 positions in that band). The charity reported 9 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Settlement programs wellness group sewing projects senior's group youth group violence against women. Women supports
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $650K | $634K | $558K | — | — | $304K |
| 2023 | $760K | $743K | $569K | — | — | $289K |
| 2022 | $805K | $681K | — | — | — | $371K |
| 2021 | $620K | $515K | $446K | — | — | $148K |
| 2020 | $464K | $437K | $365K | — | — | $44K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $349K from 11 charities:
- United Way of Greater Toronto$176K
- Canadian Women's Foundation$75K
- Daily Bread Food Bank$70K
- Gulu Thadani Foundation$15K
- Canadahelps Canadon$11K
- CHUM Charitable Foundation$1,700
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$406
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$245
- United Way of Greater Toronto$78
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$49
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$20
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9994 positions
- $1–39,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions9
- Total compensation, all staff$513K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Chitra Khalsi (director); Kripa Sekhar (executive director); Reena Tandon (chair); Neelam Farhan (treasurer); Bushra Moinuddin (director); Sara Koonar (director); Gurmit Khanda; Kanagambigai Sellachamy (director); Fazena Mohabir (secretary).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from South Asian Women's Centre’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 129426425RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.