YWCA Canada
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 888789393RR0001 · Educational Organizations Not Elsewhere Categorized
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($4,639,718) as filed with the CRA.
YWCA Canada is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under educational organizations not elsewhere categorized. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $4.8M in revenue and $4.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 10% from donations, 17% from government. In 2024, 19 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.8M.
Compared with 632 education 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 positions fell in the $120,000–159,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 24 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $2.6M in 2020 to $4.8M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 15 names.
In its own words
RBC Foundation - In Good Company YWNLSummit Block Hate The Next Accelerator Canada Summer Job Cedrus Foundation UPLIFT Hamilton Dollars and Sense Not Online Not on Campus BEAM Other
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.8M | $4.6M | $3.6M | $161K | $150 | $4M |
| 2023 | $5M | $5.1M | $4.3M | — | — | $3.9M |
| 2022 | $4.8M | $4.7M | $4.1M | — | $2,466 | $4M |
| 2021 | $6.3M | $5.5M | $5.2M | — | — | $4M |
| 2020 | $2.6M | $2.3M | $2.1M | — | $5,146 | $3.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $1.8M from 19 charities:
- The Slaight Family Foundation$1M
- United Way of Calgary and Area$500K
- Shoppers Foundation for Women's Health$100K
- United Way of Calgary and Area$86K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$44K
- The Cedrus Foundation$30K
- Canadahelps Canadon$22K
- Canadahelps Canadon$22K
- The Cedrus Foundation$15K
- The Henry White Kinnear Foundation$10K
- BenefAction Foundation$4,500
- Cedar Hill United Church$3,650
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$2,082
- The Daymark Foundation Inc.$1,500
- Amma Canada$1,500
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$197
- Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto$100
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$26
- Mobile Giving Foundation Canada$10
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9992 positions
- $80,000–119,9995 positions
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions24
- Total compensation, all staff$1.6M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Clarice Anderson; Marina Banister; Aline Nizigama ((ceo) ex officio); Meghan Cadue (vice chair); Renate Huyghebaert; Dahlia Jiwan; Fae Johnstone; Delores Mullings; Erum Afsar; Denise Christopherson (chair); Chantelle Krish; Lubna Ladak (treasurer); Marilyn Mauritz; Deborah MacPherson (vice-chair); Candice Waddell-Henowitch.
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from YWCA Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 888789393RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.