Women's Crisis Services of Waterloo Region
Publicly funded institution · Kitchener, Ontario · BN 106716525RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($5,915,163) as filed with the CRA.
Women's Crisis Services of Waterloo Region is a charitable organization based in Kitchener, 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 $5.3M in revenue and $5.9M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 30% from donations, 66% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 52 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $893K.
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 12% 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 $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 52 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
Emergency shelter services - provide emergency shelter for abused women and children crisis phone counselling - provide over the phone counselling to abused women and children crisis support - provide short term financial suppoer to abused women dedicated supportive housing - short term shelter for abused women and children transitional support program - crisis intervention of women who have not left abuse child witness - group counselling for children who whitnessed family violence
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $5.3M | $5.9M | $4.5M | $244K | — | $13.3M |
| 2023 | $5.5M | $6M | $4.3M | $446K | — | $13.9M |
| 2022 | $6.1M | $5.6M | $4M | $285K | — | $14.3M |
| 2021 | $5.3M | $5.1M | $3.7M | $211K | — | $13.9M |
| 2020 | $4.2M | $4.5M | $3.1M | $211K | — | $13.7M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $893K from 52 charities:
- United Way Waterloo Region Communities$200K
- Waterloo Region Community Foundation$135K
- Canadahelps Canadon$106K
- Canadahelps Canadon$106K
- The Lyle Shantz Hallman Charitable Foundation$80K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$57K
- Weston Family Foundation$45K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$29K
- Abundance Canada$16K
- Shoppers Foundation for Women's Health$12K
- Charitus$10K
- Locking Arms Foundation$10K
- Women's Shelters Canada$7,000
- BenefAction Foundation$7,000
- Fondation RONA$6,860
- Fondation RONA$6,288
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$6,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$5,950
- Cambridge Memorial Hospital Staff Donation Fund$5,378
- Kitchener-Conestoga Rotary Club Community Aid Fund$4,500
- The Gordon Linkletter Family Fund$4,000
- Community of Christ Cambridge Congregation$4,000
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$4,000
- Gore Mutual Insurance Company Foundation$2,500
- Unifor Social Justice Fund/Le fonds de justice sociale d'Unifor$2,365
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9997 positions
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions52
- Total compensation, all staff$3.7M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jane Adams (director); Rosina Agyapong (director); Jnajma Jose (director); Vickie Murray (director); Anamaria Pasc (director); Debra Williams (director); Angela Wilson (director); Terry Wilson (director); Toni Adey (director); Scott Heaman (director); Madchen Funk (director); Rekha Dhayakaran (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Women's Crisis Services of Waterloo Region’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 106716525RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.