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In our 2024 fiscal year, which ran from Nov. 1, 2023, to Oct. 31, 2024, we spent 86 per cent of our supporters’ money on staff costs. That’s down 3 per cent from last year and comes mostly due to a rise in tech spending which was at 5 per cent last year and has since jumped to 8 per cent.
Want to see how our costs for this year compare to those from previous years? Please check out our 2023 and 2022 pages. Staff remain by far our biggest expense. Our insurance costs dropped by about 50% in 2024 after we became members of the Canadian Media Protective Association, a group that gets lower rates for media outlets by purchasing insurance together. Rent is a line item for us for the second year in a row. We’re continuing to rent at a co-working space for nonprofits.
The rise in tech spending is downstream of us launching our Procurement, Open By Default and West Coast Accountability databases.
We’ll update this page at the end of the next fiscal year, which ends on October 31 each year.