Wil Counselling and Training for Employment
Publicly funded institution · London, Ontario · BN 123187320RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($5,371,462) as filed with the CRA.
Wil Counselling and Training for Employment is a charitable organization based in London, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. 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 $5.5M in revenue and $5.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 87% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $150.
Compared with 1,618 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 0% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (4 positions in that band). The charity reported 52 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $1,000 in 2024, the largest being $1,000 to Youth Opportunities Unlimited. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
Providing employment and counselling services.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $5.5M | $5.4M | $500 | — | $1,000 | $2.1M |
| 2023 | $5M | $5.4M | $2,750 | — | $500 | $2M |
| 2022 | $4.3M | $4.4M | $2,242 | — | — | $2.5M |
| 2021 | $4.5M | $4.4M | $1,500 | — | $1,500 | $2.6M |
| 2020 | $4.3M | $4.2M | $1,300 | — | — | $2.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1,000 to 1 qualified donee:
Received $150 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9994 positions
- $40,000–79,9996 positions
- Permanent full-time positions52
- Total compensation, all staff$3.1M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Paul Noon (board member); Daniel Getachew (board member); Tyler Kelly (past chair); Keith Murray (vice chair); Shobhita Sharma (secretary/treasurer); Patricia Potter-Bereznick (chair); Alexander Legwegoh (board member); Kristen Duever (board member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Wil Counselling and Training for Employment’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 123187320RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.