Waterloo Region Suicide Prevention Council
Charitable organization · Kitchener, Ontario · BN 831171723RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($437,538) as filed with the CRA.
Waterloo Region Suicide Prevention Council is a charitable organization based in Kitchener, Ontario, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $418K in revenue and $438K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 8% from donations, 37% from government, 18% from other charities. In 2024, 17 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $122K.
Compared with 730 community-service charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 24% of peers.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
The work of the WRSPC focuses on four pillars: Building a Sense of Community Engaging Populations of Priority Advancing Organizational Capacity and Growing Provincial and National Reach. We provide the following programs within three key areas referred to as Hope Help and Healing: *Distribution of free educational brochures and resources to the community. *Presentations and educational opportunities offered to organizations schools workplaces and for professionals providing frontline services about life promotion suicide awareness stress and mental health. * Funding for suicid…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $418K | $438K | $300K | $9,291 | — | $184K |
| 2023 | $429K | — | $262K | $8,786 | — | $203K |
| 2022 | $493K | $448K | $259K | $41K | $29K | $156K |
| 2021 | $279K | $279K | $187K | $14K | $26K | $102K |
| 2020 | $389K | $387K | $277K | $25K | $500 | $111K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $122K from 17 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$31K
- Canadahelps Canadon$31K
- Kindred Foundation$26K
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$10K
- Social Venture Partners Waterloo Region$5,194
- Mabel and Gordon McMillen Foundation$5,000
- The Ross and Doris Dixon Charitable Foundation$5,000
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$4,590
- Waterloo Region Community Foundation$2,500
- Doane Grant Thornton Foundation$1,500
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$854
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$282
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$104
- Rockway Mennonite Collegiate Inc.$100
- United Way of Kingston Frontenac Lennox & Addington$90
- United Way Waterloo Region Communities$47
- My Tribute Gift Foundation—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Melissa Strachan-Baylis (chair); Ed Hofstede (treasurer); Jessica Deming (director); Megan Moore (vice chair); Nancy Coutts (Smith) (director); Kathy Payette (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Waterloo Region Suicide Prevention Council’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 831171723RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.