Wellesley Institute
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 108103862RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,342,598) as filed with the CRA.
Wellesley Institute is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under core health care. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $4.6M in revenue and $2.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 6% from other charities. In 2024, 3 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $312K.
Compared with 453 health charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 72% 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 $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 18 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $2.2M in 2020 to $4.6M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
Identify and advance practical and achievable policy alternatives and solutions to pressing issues of urban health. Undertake research on the social determinants of health and health disparities focusing on the relationships between health and housing poverty and support community engagement and capacity building. Work in numerous collaborations and partnerships locally nationally and internationally to support social and policy change to address the impact of the social determinants of health
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.6M | $2.3M | $2.1M | — | — | $35.1M |
| 2023 | $163K | $2.2M | $1.7M | — | — | $32.9M |
| 2022 | $2.6M | $2.4M | $2.2M | — | — | $34.9M |
| 2021 | $7.8M | $2.8M | $2.3M | — | — | $34.8M |
| 2020 | $2.2M | $2.6M | $2.1M | — | — | $29.8M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $312K from 3 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9993 positions
- $80,000–119,9995 positions
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions18
- Total compensation, all staff$1.4M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Carolina Berinstein (director); Sanober Diaz (chair of board); Sonya Bourgeois (director); Nicholas Smerek (director); Monique Crichlow (director); Paul Jonathan Saquil (vice chair of board); Kwame McKenzie (secretary); Jeremy Roach (director); Savraj Syan (treasurer); Adebisi Saliu (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Wellesley Institute’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 108103862RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.