Watercan/eau Vive Corporation
Charitable organization · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 119288934RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($4,336,228) as filed with the CRA.
Watercan/eau Vive Corporation is a charitable organization based in Ottawa, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $4.4M in revenue and $4.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 26% from donations, 46% from government. In 2024, 27 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $749K.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 55% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $120,000–159,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 13 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 13 names.
In its own words
Watercan helps citizens in developing countries build sustainable water supply and sanitation services and promotes proper hygiene. Watercan encourages canadians to lead support. Watercan provides assistance in developing wells springs rain tanks and latrines in developing countries. Watercan performs public education activities in canada (public engagment). Watercan supports education on sexual and reproductive health rights and how wash supports these rights.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.4M | $4.3M | $3.8M | $375K | — | $1.1M |
| 2023 | $4.2M | $4.2M | $3.4M | $503K | — | $1M |
| 2022 | $3.6M | $3.6M | $2.9M | $523K | — | $996K |
| 2021 | $4M | $3.8M | $3M | $615K | — | $983K |
| 2020 | $5.6M | $5.3M | $4M | $1.1M | — | $856K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $749K from 27 charities:
- Fondation Mirella & Lino Saputo$500K
- The Peter Gilgan Foundation$100K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$34K
- Canadahelps Canadon$18K
- Celtic Cross Charitable Foundation Trust$17K
- The Victoria Foundation$15K
- BenefAction Foundation$11K
- The Canadian Tilling Foundation$10K
- Chyzowski Charitable Foundation Inc.$7,500
- Vancouver Foundation$5,741
- Howick Foundation /fondation Howick$5,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$4,859
- Canadian Medical Foundation$4,554
- Aqueduct Foundation$4,000
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$4,000
- Vancity Community Foundation$3,020
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$1,528
- London Road West United Church$1,200
- Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal$1,040
- Link Charity Canada Inc$500
- London Community Foundation$500
- Gandy Charitable Foundation$500
- GiftPact Foundation Inc.$300
- GivingForce Foundation Canada$260
- Presbyterian Women's Missionary Society Western Division$150
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9992 positions
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- $40,000–79,9995 positions
- $1–39,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions13
- Total compensation, all staff$1.2M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Martin Munro (member & finance comm.); Simon Carter (member & revenue comm.); Indra Prashad (board member); Max Binnie (member & governance com); Sylvain Dufour (director); Palash Sanyal (director); Trent Hoole (director); Ashley Meek (director); Philip Tanner (director); Garvey Chui (revenue committee); John Hinds (revenue committee); Carol-Anne Kemp (finance committee); Diana Stephenson (governance committee).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Watercan/eau Vive Corporation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119288934RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.