Women's Brain Health Initiative
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 800993206RR0001 · Research · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,635,791) as filed with the CRA.
Women's Brain Health Initiative is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under research. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.7M in revenue and $2.6M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 52% from donations, 45% from other charities. In 2024, 18 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.3M.
Compared with 632 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 50% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 2 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 13 names.
In its own words
To raise awareness of the magnitude of brain aging diseases for women. To educate the public on what they can do to stay brain healthy longer. To fund research to combat women's brain aging deseases.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.7M | $2.6M | $2.2M | $147K | — | $1M |
| 2023 | $2.4M | $2.7M | $2.4M | — | — | $2M |
| 2022 | $2.7M | $2.5M | $2.3M | — | — | $2.3M |
| 2021 | $2.2M | $1.6M | $1.5M | — | — | $2.1M |
| 2020 | $2M | $1.3M | $1.1M | — | — | $1.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $1.3M from 18 charities:
- Brain Canada Foundation$1.1M
- The Posluns Family Foundation$100K
- The Citrine Foundation of Canada$55K
- Aqueduct Foundation$13K
- Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto$11K
- Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg Foundation$10K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$6,395
- The Goodman Family Foundation$5,000
- R-FFLOW Foundation$5,000
- Canadahelps Canadon$3,617
- Allan and Susan Fenwick Charitable Foundation$3,600
- Abundance Canada$2,929
- Toronto Foundation$2,000
- Lalji Lakhoo Family Foundation$2,000
- BenefAction Foundation$1,000
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$1,000
- The United Church of Canada Foundation$1,000
- Prime Quadrant Foundation$360
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
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions2
- Total compensation, all staff$125K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Lynn Posluns (president); Mark Lash (director); Vivian Brown (director); Mark Girard (treasurer); Brenda Dee (director); William Stewart (director); Nancy Laughton (director); Erna Snelgrove-Clarke (director); Dominika Malycha (director); Jeffrey Beach (director); Catherine Hunter (director); Nancy Bramm (director); Leanne Kaufman (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Women's Brain Health Initiative’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 800993206RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.