Waterloo Region Community Legal Services
Publicly funded institution · Kitchener, Ontario · BN 119289254RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,854,243) as filed with the CRA.
Waterloo Region Community Legal Services is a charitable organization based in Kitchener, Ontario, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. It appears on the charity register the way hospitals, universities, and other publicly funded bodies do — to issue tax receipts — rather than as a donation-driven charity in the usual sense. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $1.9M in revenue and $1.9M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 93% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $9,000.
Compared with 829 community-service institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 25% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 16 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
To provide legal services including advice representation & related services to low income individuals with a focus on protection of housing & income. To provide public legal education to low income individuals in the form of oral presentations publications & other media to assist groups of low income individuals to join together to seek resolution of disputes with housing providers of public income maintenance programs by providing information about legal rights & information about resources available to them.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.9M | $1.9M | $1.5M | — | — | $69K |
| 2023 | $1.9M | — | $1.5M | — | — | $30K |
| 2022 | $1.8M | $1.6M | $1.3M | — | — | $226K |
| 2021 | $1.7M | $1.4M | $1M | — | — | $342K |
| 2020 | $1.7M | $1.6M | $1.2M | — | — | $155K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $9,000 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9998 positions
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions16
- Total compensation, all staff$1.4M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Linda Terry (president/chair); Peter Stuart (director); Terral McBay (secretary/director); Kevin Morrow (treasurer/director); Stacey Doterman (director); Alexander Pavlov (director); Jennifer Ly (director); Cathryn Castellino (vice-chair/director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Waterloo Region Community Legal Services’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119289254RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.