Welcome Centre Shelter for Women
Publicly funded institution · Windsor, Ontario · BN 133017897RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,450,942) as filed with the CRA.
Welcome Centre Shelter for Women is a charitable organization based in Windsor, 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 December 31, 2024, it reported $2.4M in revenue and $2.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 23% from donations, 72% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 17 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $153K.
Compared with 829 community-service institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 61% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 42 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.5M in 2020 to $2.4M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
Provides emergency shelter and support to homeless women. Support workers provide ongoing support and assist women with their plans to live independently. In addition to staff support the residents receive outreach services from such agencies as street health legal assistance of windsor and housing information services. Day programs for women include; individual counselling therapeutic support groups and food bank.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.4M | $2.5M | $2.2M | $79K | — | $2.4M |
| 2023 | $2.5M | $2.2M | $2.1M | $27K | — | $2.4M |
| 2022 | $2.7M | $1.8M | $1.7M | $24K | — | $2.2M |
| 2021 | $1.8M | $1.6M | $1.5M | $9,120 | — | $1.2M |
| 2020 | $1.5M | $1.4M | $1.3M | $12K | — | $905K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $153K from 17 charities:
- Shoppers Foundation for Women's Health$64K
- Polonia Centre (windsor) Inc.$25K
- Windsoressex Community Foundation$22K
- Canadian Women's Foundation$12K
- Canadahelps Canadon$9,679
- Local 444 Canadian Auto Workers Social Justice Fund$5,000
- The Rotary Club of Windsor Foundation Fund$2,650
- Unifor Social Justice Fund/Le fonds de justice sociale d'Unifor$2,365
- Unifor Social Justice Fund/Le fonds de justice sociale d'Unifor$2,365
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$1,976
- The Foundation Office.ca$1,250
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$1,069
- Canadian Women's Foundation$1,000
- Windsor-Essex Catholic District School Board$1,000
- The Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation of the Diocese of London in Ontario$700
- The Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Independent Mission (essex County)$400
- United Way / Centraide Windsor-Essex County—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9998 positions
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions42
- Total compensation, all staff$1.8M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Paul Renaud (general member); Julie Santarossa (general member); Darryl Burgess (treasurer); Erika Gertz (general member); Taylor North (general member); Shelby Odom (general member); Robert Price (general member); Emily Borland (general member); Janine Walker (general member); Angelo Ciardello (general member); Josh Koptie (general member); Lauren Grace Brown (general member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Welcome Centre Shelter for Women’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 133017897RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.