Windsoressex Community Foundation
Public foundation · Windsor, Ontario · BN 890653595RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($2,086,662) as filed with the CRA.
Windsoressex Community Foundation is a public foundation based in Windsor, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $40.2M in revenue and $2.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 90% from donations. In 2024, 14 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $335K.
Compared with 380 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 12% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 5 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 70 qualified donees totalling $1.2M in 2024, the largest being $141K to Slovak Heritage Foundation of Windsor-Essex County. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $2.4M in 2020 to $40.2M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
1) riverfront preservation and development 2) support environmental projects of local charitable organizations 3) support human services program initiatives of local charibale organizations 4) support the arts cultural and heritage preservation of local charitable organizations 5) manage funds for local charitable organizations 6) fund scholarships and bursaries 7) support health and well-being initiatives
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $40.2M | $2.1M | $30K | — | $1.2M | $30.7M |
| 2023 | $6M | $3.2M | $37 | — | $2.4M | $24.8M |
| 2022 | $781K | $1.8M | $12K | — | $1.1M | $21.9M |
| 2021 | $6.2M | $1.7M | $14K | — | $1.2M | $22.9M |
| 2020 | $2.4M | $1.1M | $15K | — | $671K | $0 |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1.2M to 70 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Slovak Heritage Foundation of Windsor-Essex County$141K
- The Windsor Symphony Society$135K
- Corporation of the Municipality of Leamington$100K
- Trans Wellness Ontario$60K
- Canadian Mental Health Association Windsor-Essex County Branch$48K
- Windsor-Essex Children's Aid Society$47K
- Greater Essex County District School Board$41K
- Sexual Assault Crisis Centre of Essex County Inc.$30K
- The Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation of the Diocese of London in Ontario$30K
- Carolinian Canada Coalition$30K
- Artcite Inc$30K
- The Art Gallery of Windsor$30K
- Women's Enterprise Skills Training of Windsor Inc.$27K
- Windsor Family Health Team$25K
- The Essex Region Conservation Foundation$24K
- Welcome Centre Shelter for Women$22K
- Windsor-Essex Therapeutic Riding Association$21K
- The Rotary Club of Windsor Foundation Fund$20K
- University of Windsor$20K
- Downtown Windsor Community Collaborative$18K
- Windsoressex Community Foundation$18K
- Corporation of the Town of Amherstburg$16K
- The Kiwanis Club of Windsor$15K
- Windsor Cancer Centre Foundation$15K
- Iris Residential Inns and Services$15K
Received $335K from 14 charities:
- Community Foundations of Canada$206K
- Canadahelps Canadon$27K
- Canadahelps Canadon$27K
- Windsoressex Community Foundation$18K
- The Murray R. O'Neil Charitable Foundation$15K
- Freed and Orman Families Charitable Foundation$10K
- The Toldo Foundation$10K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$10K
- The Read Elliott Family Foundation$5,000
- The Toldo Foundation$3,000
- Rosati Family Foundation$2,000
- Windsor Spitfires Foundation$1,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$300
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$10
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
- $40,000–79,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions5
- Total compensation, all staff$299K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Rachelle Booth (chair); Tracy Berger (vice chair); Richard Wyma (past chair); Asamaka Chukwuka (secretary); Lucie Lombardo (director); Kathey Clemente (director); John Renaud (treasurer); Joyce Nixon (director); Lacy Carty (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Windsoressex Community Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 890653595RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.