YWCA Edmonton
Publicly funded institution · Edmonton, Alberta · BN 108227935RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($14,223,848) as filed with the CRA.
YWCA Edmonton is a charitable organization based in Edmonton, Alberta, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. 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 December 31, 2024, it reported $14.8M in revenue and $14.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 86% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 14 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $494K.
Compared with 115 community-service institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 2% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 91% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 209 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 14 names.
In its own words
Disability services provides in home respite out of home respite and support home services for children and adults. Counselling services provides group and one on one counselling for children and adults specifically those who are victims of domestic violence and in the areas of trauma abuse bereavement and transition. Camp yowochas is a year round outdoor that provides recreation environment and educational programs for children and adults.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $14.8M | $14.2M | $332K | $432K | — | $2.8M |
| 2023 | $13.9M | $13.4M | $11.7M | $664K | $0 | $2.3M |
| 2022 | $12.5M | $12.3M | $11.1M | $392K | — | $1.9M |
| 2021 | $12.8M | $12.5M | $11M | $376K | $0 | $2.5M |
| 2020 | $11.3M | $11.1M | $9.7M | $307K | — | $1.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $494K from 14 charities:
- The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act$293K
- The Stollery Charitable Foundation$60K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$43K
- The AIMCo Foundation for Financial Education$39K
- RBC Foundation$25K
- Melton Foundation$10K
- Allard Foundation LTD.$7,500
- Eberlein Family Charitable Foundation$5,000
- Wolfe Pack Warriors Foundation$4,200
- Abc Benefits Corporation Foundation$2,500
- Canadahelps Canadon$2,291
- United Way of the Alberta Capital Region$1,683
- CN Employees' and Pensioners' Community Fund$657
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$527
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
- $80,000–119,9996 positions
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions209
- Total compensation, all staff$8.6M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2023)
May Han (director); Erum Afsar (director); Pamela Zrobek (treasurer); Francesca Ghossein (president); Meghan Unterschultz Klein (director); Kelsea Zalaski (secretary); Kemi Kufuor-Boakye (vice president); Michelle Okere (director); Siahra Raeyr (director); Meghana Valupadas (director); Leigh Mulholland; Laurie Wang; Rachel Foley; Sumira Duggal.
As listed on its 2023 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from YWCA Edmonton’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 108227935RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.