What the year requires, what is already covered, and what the remaining gap holds in place.
Note. Reductions total $31,800 against a $30,000 shortfall. The $1,800 is held as reserve, not saved: with no trained backup, the contingency scenario carries higher risk.
Full-time. Most daily operations, 50+ schools, 30+ providers, 5,000+ registrations.
Very part-time. Small tasks — payments, reports, grants. No marketing or social media.
Program admin support; sole backup, already discounted. No trained second person.
Donation revenue funded the position — committed one year at a time. It was created to move daily operations off the founder. It worked.
One person runs everything, with no trained backup. Any absence interrupts a contracted service — and the ED absorbs operations again.
A second person trained and ready. Knowledge moves out of one head into systems. This takes multi-year planning — it cannot be done reactively or short-term. Finding and training “multiple-hat” roles takes time.
Service revenue already funds two-thirds of the budget — $150,000. Closing the last third means more public sector service contracts and policy engagement: work the ED can only do when not covering daily operations. Each funding gap pulls the ED back, and that work stops. Continuity is what breaks the cycle.
| Fiscal year (July–June) | 2023–24 | 2024–25 | 2025–26 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total operating cost | $147,015 | $197,112 | $185,000 |
| Programs delivered | 380 | 438 | 530 |
| Student registrations | 5,356 | 5,144 | 5,193 |
| Students subsidised | 247 | 683 | 837 |
| Program value facilitated | $666,587 | $680,305 | $741,806 |
| Program value per $1 spent | $4.53 | $3.45 | $4.01 |
2025–26 figures are preliminary; that year’s financial statement is not yet finalised.
Operating cost rose 26% over three years. Students supported through subsidies rose 239%, and program value returned per dollar held at about $4.
SD43 reports student well-being 18% above provincial and 30% above national MDI benchmarks — “much of this success can be attributed to the expansion of DWUL.”