YWCA British Columbia
Charitable organization · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 108227943RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($59,042,545) as filed with the CRA.
YWCA British Columbia is a charitable organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $73.6M in revenue and $59M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 8% from donations, 46% from government, 9% from other charities. In 2024, 78 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $6.9M.
Compared with 34 community-service charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 39% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $300,000–349,999 range. The charity reported 353 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $45M in 2020 to $73.6M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
1. Housing for single mothers children at risk women people in crisis 2. Early learning and care centres for children 0 - 6 3. Crabtree community - programs and services for women & children in the downtown east side. Including food sypport housing life skills programs. 4. Transition house for women fleeing abuse 5. Health and fitness promotion & training 6. Single mothers support services 7. Leadership development / youth mentorship 8. Residence/hotel for short and longer term housing 9. Employment services personal development and job assistance programs 10. Support for youth…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $73.6M | $59M | $50.7M | $2.8M | — | $96.9M |
| 2023 | $58.3M | $53.9M | $46.5M | $2.5M | $5,000 | $82.4M |
| 2022 | $52.2M | $47.9M | $41.3M | $2.1M | $3,000 | $77.9M |
| 2021 | $48.9M | $39.5M | $34.2M | $1.8M | — | $73.6M |
| 2020 | $45M | $35.1M | $30.3M | $1.7M | — | $64.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $6.9M from 78 charities:
- The 625 Powell Street Foundation$3.9M
- April 1 Foundation$571K
- Vancouver Foundation$380K
- H W Siebens Charitable Foundation$245K
- Y.P. Heung Foundation$150K
- North Family Foundation$150K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$103K
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$102K
- Krogseth Foundation$100K
- Maneck Homi Italia Foundation$100K
- Cause We Care Foundation$93K
- The Victoria Foundation$86K
- The Stollery Charitable Foundation$75K
- The Hieros Foundation$68K
- RBC Foundation$65K
- Chan Sisters Foundation$50K
- The Houssian Foundation$50K
- Munford Family Foundation$50K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$42K
- The Shewan Foundation$40K
- DR. Ann Worth Charitable Foundation$32K
- The Lecky Foundation$30K
- Seedlings Foundation$25K
- Somerset Foundation$25K
- Canadahelps Canadon$25K
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
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9998 positions
- Permanent full-time positions353
- Total compensation, all staff$33.9M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Lawrie Ferguson (chair); Cathy Imrie (treasurer); Dianne Sparrow (secretary); Barbara Bahry (director); Carol Liao (director); Celeste Haldane (director); Diane Sullivan (director); Joanna Ban (director); Roopa Dave (director); Sasha Gladu (director); Zahra Hudani (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from YWCA British Columbia’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 108227943RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.