Charity BreakdownCanadian charity filings, itemized

Women's Shelters Canada

Publicly funded institution · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 840989933RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website

Your $100, itemizedWomen's Shelters CanadaFiscal year ended March 31, 2024
Charitable programs$78
Gifts to other charities$17
Management & admin$5
TOTAL$100
RegisteredPublicly funded

Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,732,045) as filed with the CRA.

Women's Shelters Canada is a charitable organization based in Ottawa, 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 $3.1M in revenue and $2.7M in expenditures.

Its funding that year was roughly 7% from donations, 57% from government, 30% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 12 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.5M.

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 78% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 13 permanent full-time positions.

It reported gifts to 75 qualified donees totalling $441K in 2024, the largest being $63K to Femmes Autochtones du Quebec Inc. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $861K in 2020 to $3.1M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.

In its own words

Knowledge Exchange: We facilitate the creation and implementation of new ideas and practices to meet the needs of shelters and the women and children they serve. Through coordinated working groups virtual work spaces research and publications we connect knowledgeable and dedicated individuals from coast to coast to coast. Public Education: to educate the public via our annual survey of shelters and the publication of Shelter Voices and manage sheltersafe.ca an online tool which provides a lifeline to women at any time of day or night. The site includes a clickable map of over 550 shelters …

Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.

The ledger, 2020–2024

YearRevenueSpendingProgramsFundraisingGifts outNet assets
2024$3.1M$2.7M$2.1M—$478K$1.9M
2023$68.5M$68.2M$2.6M—$65.5M$1.7M
2022$23.5M$23.2M$1.8M—$19.6M$1.3M
2021$37.1M$36.6M$5.6M—$31M$1M
2020$861K$693K$616K$11K—$585K

Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.

Money between charities, 2024

Granted $441K to 75 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:

Full grant ledger — all 75 grants

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
  • $80,000–119,9993 positions
  • $40,000–79,9996 positions
  • Permanent full-time positions13
  • Total compensation, all staff$1M

Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.

Directors & trustees (2024)

Marlene Ham; Beverley Wybrow (treasurer); Saadia Muzaffar (public director); Amy FitzGerald; Julie Young (public director); Nola Mahingen (public director); Michelle Parsons; Daniel Meades; Mathilde Trou (secretary); Tsungai Muvingi.

As listed on its 2024 return.

Check the source

Every figure on this page is from Women's Shelters Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 840989933RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.