United Way of Canada
Public foundation · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 119278141RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($8,907,178) as filed with the CRA.
United Way of Canada is a public foundation based in Ottawa, Ontario, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $9.7M in revenue and $8.9M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 9% from donations. In 2024, 35 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $2M.
Compared with 299 community-service charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 12% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 87% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $300,000–349,999 range. The charity reported 42 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 30 qualified donees totalling $1M in 2024, the largest being $715K to Findhelp Information Services. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $171.3M in 2020 to $9.7M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 16 names.
In its own words
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Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $9.7M | $8.9M | $6.3M | $1.1M | -$539K | $7.9M |
| 2023 | $125.5M | $125.3M | $6.6M | $30K | $116.2M | $7.1M |
| 2022 | $8.6M | $7.9M | $6.4M | $41K | $300K | $7M |
| 2021 | $9.7M | $8.6M | $3.2M | $49K | $1M | $6.4M |
| 2020 | $171.3M | $169.1M | $2.2M | $28K | $163.4M | $5.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1M to 30 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Findhelp Information Services$715K
- United Way of Greater Moncton and Southeastern New Brunswick Region Inc.\centraide de la Region du Grand Moncton et du Sud Est du Nouveau-New Brunswick Inc.$71K
- United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes$40K
- Nunavut Kamatsiaqtut Help Line$36K
- Council for Business & Arts in Canada$30K
- Tamarack Institute for Community Engagement$30K
- United Way British Columbia$25K
- Centre de Référence du Grand Montréal$17K
- CANADIAN CENTRE FOR DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION/Centre canadian pour la diversité et l'inclusion$14K
- Canadian Mental Health Association-Edmonton Region$7,290
- United Way of the Alberta Capital Region$4,738
- Community Connection$4,314
- United Way of Regina$4,310
- United Way of Winnipeg$3,466
- Lakehead Social Planning Council$1,775
- Distress Centre Calgary$1,775
- United Way of Greater Toronto$1,500
- United Way / Centraide Windsor-Essex County$1,500
- Centraide Du Grand Montréal$1,500
- United Way Golden Horseshoe$1,000
- United Way of Oxford$1,000
- Centraide Québec Chaudière-Appalaches et Bas-Saint laurent$1,000
- United Way Simcoe Muskoka$1,000
- United Way of Calgary and Area$1,000
- United Way of Bruce Grey$1,000
Received $2M from 35 charities:
- Centraide Du Grand Montréal$640K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$540K
- United Way of Calgary and Area$386K
- Export Development Canada Employee Charity Trust$85K
- United Way of Thunder Bay$56K
- Canadahelps Canadon$54K
- Canadahelps Canadon$54K
- United Way of Bruce Grey$44K
- The Leboff Family Charitable Foundation$32K
- United Way Simcoe Muskoka$30K
- Seneca College of Applied Arts & Technology$15K
- United Way of Oxford$12K
- The Calgary Foundation$8,403
- United Way of Greater Toronto$7,783
- Aqueduct Foundation$4,500
- United Way of the Alberta Capital Region$4,293
- Healthpartners Canada$4,208
- The Unity Values Foundation$3,785
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$2,500
- Gary & Maxie Bluestein Charitable Foundation$2,400
- The Minto Greenberg Legacy Foundation$1,778
- La Fabrique de la Paroisse de Notre-Dame$1,500
- United Way Community Services of Guelph and Wellington$1,500
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,180
- 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:
- $300,000–349,9991 position
- $200,000–249,9993 positions
- $160,000–199,9992 positions
- $120,000–159,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions42
- Total compensation, all staff$5.1M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Debra Pozega Osburn (past chair); Paul Totten (like official); Dan Clement (like official); Christine Hanlon (treasurer); Jason Hatcher (board chair); Karen Macdonald (vice-chair); Cece Baptiste (director); Lily Chang (director); Pierre Baraby (director); Gina McKay (director); Will Thornburrow (director); Kevin King (director); Rudy Kerklaan (director); Fauzia Lalani (director); Jodi Carradice (director); Kenny Hilaire (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from United Way of Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119278141RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.