World Vision Canada
Charitable organization · Mississauga, Ontario · BN 119304855RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-09-30. Split of total expenditures ($472,018,660) as filed with the CRA.
World Vision Canada is a charitable organization based in Mississauga, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, it reported $468.3M in revenue and $472M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 44% from donations, 7% from government. In 2024, 440 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $8.5M.
Compared with 147 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 34% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $300,000–349,999 range. The charity reported 407 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 7 qualified donees totalling $3.7M in 2024, the largest being $2M to War Child Canada. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
World Vision Canada carries out programs in 55 countries which are funded through ongoing private and public funding and focuses on: • Livelihoods: including food environment & climate change and economic empowerment; • Health: including water sanitation hygiene maternal neo-natal child & adolescent health nutrition infectious communicable diseases mental health & helping women make informed choices about reproductive health such as the freedom to decide if and when to have children; • Child Rights: including child protection and child participation; • Education: including Early Chi…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $468.3M | $472M | $392.1M | $49.2M | $3.7M | $24.6M |
| 2023 | $503.1M | $502M | $422.4M | $51.5M | $4.6M | $28.4M |
| 2022 | $438.7M | $436M | $368.1M | $43.2M | $4.3M | $27.3M |
| 2021 | $440.8M | $439.6M | $380.9M | $35.3M | $3.5M | $24.5M |
| 2020 | $394.4M | $394.9M | $321.7M | $43.7M | $5.3M | $23.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $3.7M to 7 qualified donees:
Received $8.5M from 440 charities:
- Humanitarian Coalition / Coalition Humanitaire$2.3M
- The Barrett Family Foundation$1.3M
- BenefAction Foundation$376K
- David and Dorothy Lam Foundation$350K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$341K
- Canadahelps Canadon$282K
- Canadahelps Canadon$282K
- David and Penny Wilson Family Foundation$250K
- The Don and Joan Walker Family Charitable Trust$250K
- The Foundation Office.ca$246K
- Canada Gives$221K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$159K
- The Daccord Family Foundation$158K
- The Walker Lynch Foundation$150K
- Manitoba Council for International CO-Operation Inc.$150K
- Abundance Canada$130K
- Reimer Express Foundation Inc.$100K
- Global Peace Initiative$75K
- Link Charity Canada Inc$65K
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$56K
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$53K
- The Tenaquip Foundation$50K
- The Rix Family Foundation$50K
- Aqueduct Foundation$41K
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$41K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $300,000–349,9991 position
- $250,000–299,9992 positions
- $200,000–249,9993 positions
- $160,000–199,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions407
- Total compensation, all staff$46.4M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Drew Fitch (elected director); Deborah Holbrook (chair); Michael Kamel (elected director); Rob Meikle (vice-chair); Suanne Miedema (elected director); Alison Williams (elected director); Eva Wong (treasurer); Peter Neufeld (secretary); Rebekah Powell (elected director); Steven Kroeker (elected director); Patrice Boileau (elected director); Rebecca Chan (elected director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from World Vision Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119304855RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.