Women's Legal Education and Action Fund Inc./fonds d'Action et d'Education Juridiques pour les Femmes Inc.
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 108219916RR0001 · Support of Schools and Education · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,480,480) as filed with the CRA.
Women's Legal Education and Action Fund Inc./fonds d'Action et d'Education Juridiques pour les Femmes Inc. is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under support of schools and education. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $2.4M in revenue and $2.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 40% from donations, 26% from government, 17% from other charities. In 2024, 28 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $727K.
Compared with 632 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 2% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 13 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.6M in 2020 to $2.4M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
Promoted human and civil rights through strategic litigation. Adopted and litigated cases as an intervenor at all levels of court. Advanced education of the public concerning human and civil rights and the significance or interpretation and enforcement of the canadian charter of rights and freedoms.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.4M | $2.5M | $582K | $139K | — | $1.7M |
| 2023 | $1.5M | $1.6M | $96K | $85K | — | $1.8M |
| 2022 | $1.5M | $1.4M | $98K | $76K | — | $1.9M |
| 2021 | $2M | $1.3M | $71K | $33K | — | $1.8M |
| 2020 | $1.6M | $1.5M | $298K | $90K | — | $1.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $727K from 28 charities:
- Women's Legal Education and Action Fund Foundation/la Fondation du Fonds d'Action et d'Education Juridiques pour les Femmes$230K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$139K
- The Flanagan Foundation$100K
- The J W McConnell Family Foundation$50K
- Gloria Baylis Foundation$47K
- The Canadian Bar Law for the Future Fund$25K
- Toronto Foundation$21K
- The Winnipeg Foundation$20K
- J. Armand Bombardier Foundation$15K
- The Delaney Family Foundation$15K
- Canadahelps Canadon$15K
- R. Howard Webster Foundation$10K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$8,483
- Canadian Women's Foundation$7,323
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$5,000
- The Goodman Family Foundation$5,000
- McLean Smits Family Foundation$5,000
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$3,693
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$1,240
- Arbor Memorial Foundation$1,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,000
- BenefAction Foundation$624
- Lee Tak Wai Foundation$500
- GiftPact Foundation Inc.$500
- Abundance Canada$400
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9994 positions
- $40,000–79,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions13
- Total compensation, all staff$1.3M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Kerry Lynn Okita (board co-chair); Jessica Prince (chair fund development); Katherine Rivington (chair of finance and aud); Hadiya Roderique (board co-chair); Adriel Weaver (chiar of the law program); Reakash Walters (directors); Meaghan Ross (director); Rebecca Meharchand (director); Koren Lightning (director); Alana Robert (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Women's Legal Education and Action Fund Inc./fonds d'Action et d'Education Juridiques pour les Femmes Inc.’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 108219916RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.