Vancouver Women's Health Collective Society
Charitable organization · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 119282382RR0001 · Supportive Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($967,478) as filed with the CRA.
Vancouver Women's Health Collective Society is a charitable organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under supportive health care. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $983K in revenue and $967K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 48% from donations, 28% from government, 18% from other charities. In 2024, 5 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $363K.
Compared with 1,130 health charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 62% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (5 positions in that band). The charity reported 8 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $279K in 2020 to $983K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
The vancouver women's health collective aims to empower all who identift as women non-binary and gender non-conforming to foster health wellness and equity through feminist approaches to advocacy shared knowledge and low- barrier programs and services. The vwhc hosts free access to programming and services that include primary health care naturopathic care wellness counselling yoga workshops on health-related topics referrals and support through advocacy and peer-led projects. Through in-kind donations we offer free clothing personal hygiene products and food giveaways. …
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $983K | $967K | $845K | — | — | $57K |
| 2023 | $952K | $949K | $932K | — | — | $53K |
| 2022 | $960K | $938K | $924K | — | — | $55K |
| 2021 | $675K | $570K | $558K | — | — | $17K |
| 2020 | $279K | $313K | $301K | — | — | $12K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $363K from 5 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9995 positions
- $1–39,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions8
- Total compensation, all staff$355K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jenifer Alejandra Simmons (chair); Claire Ferhusson (vice-chair); Pamela Lay (member at large); Laura McQuarrie Salter (member at large); Sara Sheikh-Oleslami (member at large); Sophia Shalchy-Tabrizi (secretary); Bei Linda Tang (treasurer); Bontlenyane Mokose (executive director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Vancouver Women's Health Collective Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119282382RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.