The Redwood...For Women and Children Fleeing Abuse
Publicly funded institution · Toronto Po C, Ontario · BN 891728867RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($4,259,900) as filed with the CRA.
The Redwood...For Women and Children Fleeing Abuse is a charitable organization based in Toronto Po C, 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 $4.9M in revenue and $4.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 37% from donations, 53% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 37 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $888K.
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 15% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 31 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $3.2M in 2020 to $4.9M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
Safe emergency shelter and service on a 24-hour basis including all languages cultural interpretation counseling and group support referral accompaniment and support including housing legal ( family and immigration) financial education employment and child and youth programs. Re-establishment assistance for women who so not use the shelter outreach support community awareness and working for social change through education and action
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.9M | $4.3M | $3.3M | $311K | — | $5.2M |
| 2023 | $4.2M | $4M | $3.1M | $430K | — | $4.6M |
| 2022 | $5.1M | $3.9M | $3.2M | $378K | — | $4.5M |
| 2021 | $3.9M | $3M | $2.4M | $306K | — | $3.3M |
| 2020 | $3.2M | $2.9M | $2.4M | $233K | — | $2.4M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $888K from 37 charities:
- United Way of Greater Toronto$192K
- The Lillian Meighen and Don Wright Foundation$165K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$65K
- The Bras Family Foundation$50K
- The Lang Family Foundation$50K
- Canadahelps Canadon$43K
- Canadahelps Canadon$43K
- Remembering Otto and Marie Pick Charitable Foundation$30K
- Shoppers Foundation for Women's Health$28K
- The Alva Foundation$28K
- Women's Shelters Canada$25K
- Greenrock Charitable Trust$25K
- Greater Toronto Apartment Association Charitable Foundation$20K
- Frederick and Douglas Dickson Memorial Foundation$20K
- BenefAction Foundation$20K
- Belsize Foundation$20K
- TD Securities Underwriting Hope Fund$10K
- Ward Family Foundation$10K
- Amant Global Foundation$9,000
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$5,250
- Abundance Canada$4,000
- Kingsway Lambton United Church$4,000
- The Newall Family Foundation$3,500
- United Way of Greater Toronto$2,785
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$2,429
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- $40,000–79,9996 positions
- Permanent full-time positions31
- Total compensation, all staff$2.6M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Allyson Samuel (director); Lauriana Mandody (director); Nadine Sookermany (vice president); Olayinka Ekenkwo (secretary); Kathryn Lamothe (director); Laura Boudreau (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Redwood...For Women and Children Fleeing Abuse’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 891728867RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.