Women's Multicultural Resource and Counselling Centre of Durham
Publicly funded institution · Pickering, Ontario · BN 885394940RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,224,944) as filed with the CRA.
Women's Multicultural Resource and Counselling Centre of Durham is a charitable organization based in Pickering, Ontario, classified by the CRA under core health care. 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 $1.3M in revenue and $1.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 68% from government, 24% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 10 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $163K.
Compared with 717 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 71% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 10 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $451K in 2020 to $1.3M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
Ongoing programs wmrcc provides services and programs for women youth and children from diverse backgrounds who have experienced violence abuse and/or are dealing with integration issues. Social enterprise program and challenge racism project to bridge employment gap for equity deserving communities.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.3M | $1.2M | $1.1M | — | — | $281K |
| 2023 | $838K | $855K | $599K | — | — | $193K |
| 2022 | $959K | $885K | $835K | — | — | $210K |
| 2021 | $760K | $700K | $642K | — | — | $136K |
| 2020 | $451K | $476K | $445K | — | — | $77K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $163K from 10 charities:
- United Way Golden Horseshoe$85K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$37K
- Canadian Women's Foundation$26K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$7,048
- Women's Economic Council$3,200
- Durham Community Foundation$3,000
- Canadahelps Canadon$1,149
- CHUM Charitable Foundation$500
- Children's Aid Foundation of Canada—
- Children's Aid Foundation of Canada—
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
- $40,000–79,9997 positions
- $1–39,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions10
- Total compensation, all staff$789K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Aryan Esgandanian (president); Kisho Umar (vice president); Phoebe Grayson (treasurer); Kathleen Corey (secretary); Kadia Baugh-Williams (director); Adele Ngamala (director); Maggie Perotin (director); Frida Basalirwa (director); Omar Almajadalawi (director); Madiha Ahmad (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Women's Multicultural Resource and Counselling Centre of Durham’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 885394940RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.