Up With Women
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 838059459RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-07-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,713,526) as filed with the CRA.
Up With Women is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. In its fiscal year ending July 31, 2024, it reported $2M in revenue and $1.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 19% from donations, 46% from government, 33% from other charities. In 2024, 9 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $476K.
Compared with 299 community-service charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 44% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 93% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 19 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $599K in 2020 to $2M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
Up with women provides help with recently homeless and at-risk women to build sustrainable prosperous careers and businesses with the aim of permanently exiting poverty.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2M | $1.7M | $1.4M | $2,370 | — | $1.4M |
| 2023 | $2.1M | $1.8M | $1.5M | $3,006 | — | $1.1M |
| 2022 | $1.7M | $1.4M | $1.2M | $2,324 | — | $713K |
| 2021 | $1.1M | $908K | $747K | $4,396 | — | $423K |
| 2020 | $599K | $540K | $456K | — | — | $251K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $476K from 9 charities:
- The Peter Gilgan Foundation$100K
- The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation$100K
- Toronto Foundation$93K
- Canadahelps Canadon$61K
- Canadahelps Canadon$61K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$59K
- The Allen and Milli Gould Family Foundation$1,000
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$492
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$2
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- $40,000–79,9996 positions
- Permanent full-time positions19
- Total compensation, all staff$1.2M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Karen Webb (past chair/secretary); Sandy Dawson (past treasurer); Heather-Anne Irwin (director); Gayle Murdoch (director); Sohana Inderlall (treasurer); Thomas Foucault (director); Simona Salter (director); Sarah O'Neil (director); Veryl Obodi (director); Michael Hagley (director); Sabrina Ladha (director); Alison Burton (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Up With Women’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 838059459RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.