United Way Waterloo Region Communities
Public foundation · Kitchener, Ontario · BN 119278133RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($7,039,296) as filed with the CRA.
United Way Waterloo Region Communities is a public foundation based in Kitchener, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $6.7M in revenue and $7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 48% from donations, 24% from government, 17% from other charities. In 2024, 28 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.3M.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 34% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $250,000–299,999 range. The charity reported 19 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 214 qualified donees totalling $4.4M in 2024, the largest being $216K to Social Development Centre Waterloo Region. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
United Way Waterloo Region Communities is dedicated to helping people live better lives in every one of the seven communities we serve. We are the largest funder of social programs in Waterloo Region second only to government. We are locally focused informed connected and deeply invested in helping people reach their full potential in the seven communities that comprise Waterloo Region: Cambridge Kitchener Waterloo Wilmot Woolwich Wellesley and North Dumfries.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $6.7M | $7M | $953K | $849K | $4.7M | $4.7M |
| 2023 | $5.3M | $5.2M | $850K | $804K | $3M | $4.8M |
| 2022 | $5.7M | $5.5M | $884K | $741K | $3.3M | $4.8M |
| 2021 | $8.6M | $6.4M | $731K | $688K | $4.5M | $4.6M |
| 2020 | $5.9M | $6.6M | $948K | $904K | $4.1M | $2.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $4.4M to 214 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Social Development Centre Waterloo Region$216K
- Women's Crisis Services of Waterloo Region$200K
- Kitchener-Waterloo Counselling Services Incorporated$196K
- Family Counselling Centre of Cambridge & North Dumfries$150K
- Cambridge Shelter Corporation$133K
- Cambridge Self-Help Food Bank Inc.$133K
- Kitchener-Waterloo Multicultural Centre Inc.$131K
- House of Friendship$128K
- Kitchener-Waterloo Young Women's Christian Association$125K
- Child Witness Centre of Waterloo Region$123K
- Volunteer Action Centre Waterloo Region$120K
- AIDS Committee of Cambridge Kitchener-Waterloo & Area$120K
- Community CARE Concepts of Woolwich Wellesley & Wilmot Townships$117K
- Community Support Connections - Meals on Wheels and More$116K
- John Howard Society of Waterloo - Wellington$109K
- Greenway-Chaplin Community Centre$105K
- Nutrition for Learning Inc.$104K
- Regional Municipality of Waterloo$97K
- Anishnabeg Outreach Employment and Training Inc.$95K
- Family & Children's Services of the Regional Municipality of Waterloo Foundation$80K
- 'argus'- Residence for Young People$80K
- Centre for Mutual Wellbeing$71K
- The Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery$70K
- Community Justice Initiatives of Waterloo Region$67K
- Bridges To Belonging$65K
Received $1.3M from 28 charities:
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$464K
- United Way of Greater Toronto$272K
- Waterloo Region Community Foundation$204K
- Gore Mutual Insurance Company Foundation$51K
- Canadahelps Canadon$45K
- Canadahelps Canadon$45K
- Astley Family Foundation$35K
- RBC Foundation$30K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$25K
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$18K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$10K
- United Way of the Alberta Capital Region$7,385
- Cambridge Memorial Hospital Staff Donation Fund$7,171
- Abundance Canada$6,700
- Ford Motor Company of Canada Limited$6,448
- Barber-Collins Security Services LTD. 'employees Charity Trust'$6,205
- United Way Golden Horseshoe$5,415
- The KPMG Foundation/la Fondation KPMG$5,000
- BenefAction Foundation$3,000
- United Way of Perth-Huron$1,560
- The United Church of Canada Foundation$1,484
- United Way Elgin Middlesex$1,254
- Goodwill Industries Ontario Great Lakes$1,110
- Aqueduct Foundation$1,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$250
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $250,000–299,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9996 positions
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions19
- Total compensation, all staff$1.5M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Karen Wilkinson (board member); Ken Seiling (board member); Neena Gupta (board member); Donald Paddock (board member); Jason Daly (board member); Jeff Pelich (board member); Rebecca Tascona (board member); Kim Welch (board member); Sardool Bhogal (board member); Laura Galbraith (board member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from United Way Waterloo Region Communities’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119278133RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.