The Period Purse
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 723888327RR0001 · Supportive Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-01. Split of total expenditures ($727,783) as filed with the CRA.
The Period Purse is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under supportive health care. In its fiscal year ending March 1, 2024, it reported $783K in revenue and $728K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 99% from donations. In 2024, 14 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $161K.
Compared with 1,130 health charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 94% of peers.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $56K in 2020 to $783K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
The Period Purse strives to achieve menstrual equity by providing people who menstruate with access to free menstrual products and to reduce the stigma surrounding periods through public education and advocacy. In this past year we continued to provide free menstrual products in schools libraries food banks and shelters. In addition we also provided virtual educational sessions to the community.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $783K | $728K | $728K | — | — | $225K |
| 2023 | $571K | $516K | $516K | — | — | $170K |
| 2022 | $378K | $354K | $354K | — | — | $115K |
| 2021 | $265K | $204K | $204K | — | — | $91K |
| 2020 | $56K | $37K | $37K | — | — | $30K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $161K from 14 charities:
- Shoppers Foundation for Women's Health$100K
- Toronto Foundation$20K
- The Canadian Tilling Foundation$20K
- Canadahelps Canadon$9,170
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$6,898
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$1,454
- Royal York Road United Church$1,445
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$526
- Rotary Club of Toronto-Parkdale Foundation$400
- United Way of Greater Toronto$342
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$266
- Nick & Lynn Ross Charitable Foundation$200
- West Island College Society of Alberta$169
- Toronto District School Board$100
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Permanent full-time positions0
- Total compensation, all staff$188K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Lieran Docherty (board chair); Dena Bonnet (director); Carolyn Poplak (director); Jacqueline Morgan (director); Pauline Yick (treasurer); Zahra Stark (director); Nikita Thaker (director); Shaunna Kelly (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Period Purse’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 723888327RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.