Women Building Futures Society
Publicly funded institution · Edmonton, Alberta · BN 884181223RR0001 · Teaching Institutions
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($13,519,193) as filed with the CRA.
Women Building Futures Society is a charitable organization based in Edmonton, Alberta, classified by the CRA under teaching institutions. 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 June 30, 2024, it reported $13.7M in revenue and $13.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 66% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 9 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $369K.
Compared with 733 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 22% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 94% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $160,000–199,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 79 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $8M in 2020 to $13.7M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
Developing and delivering trades training programs in alberta geared to women's learning styles - increasing women's employment opportunities and sustainability - identifying and addressing the systemic barries women face - providing ongoing training and employment support and referral services to women interested in trades - housing for low income women - developing training programs for other areas outside of alberta (ontario and saskatchewan)
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $13.7M | $13.5M | $10.5M | $1.1M | — | $4.1M |
| 2023 | $10M | $10.2M | $7.2M | $1M | — | $3.9M |
| 2022 | $8.7M | $8.4M | $5.7M | $960K | — | $4.1M |
| 2021 | $7.9M | $8M | $4.9M | — | — | $3.8M |
| 2020 | $8M | $7.2M | $4.2M | — | — | $3.9M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $369K from 9 charities:
- CWB Welding Foundation$101K
- The Leacross Foundation/La Fondation Leacross$100K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$99K
- The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act$32K
- RBC Foundation$25K
- Canadahelps Canadon$12K
- United Way of the Alberta Capital Region$720
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$100
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$31
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9992 positions
- $120,000–159,9997 positions
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions79
- Total compensation, all staff$7.3M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Scott Brattly (director); Danielle Corsaro (director); Lina Cosentino (audit committee chair treasu); Rebecca Kragnes (director); Freddie Martinez (governance committee chair se); Bob Masterson (board vice chair); Tara Matheson (director); Lindsay Osmond (human resource and compensatio); Maya Pungur-Buick (director); Landa Richards (board chair).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Women Building Futures Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 884181223RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.