Aunt Leah's Independent Lifeskills Society
Charitable organization · New Westminster, British Columbia · BN 123041683RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($7,169,350) as filed with the CRA.
Aunt Leah's Independent Lifeskills Society is a charitable organization based in New Westminster, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $6M in revenue and $7.2M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 20% from donations, 50% from government, 18% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 48 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.2M.
Compared with 299 community-service charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 15% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 76% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (7 positions in that band). The charity reported 40 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
1. Residential & supported housing for youth and marginalized mothers (aunt leah's house support link & thresholds) 2. Employment & lifeskills training for youth & families (the link program)
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $6M | $7.2M | $5M | $690K | — | $345K |
| 2023 | $6.6M | $6.5M | $4.5M | $502K | — | $1.5M |
| 2022 | $6.3M | $6.2M | $4.5M | $521K | — | $1.5M |
| 2021 | $6.6M | $6M | $4.7M | $566K | — | $1.3M |
| 2020 | $5.3M | $4.8M | $3.6M | $509K | — | $784K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $1.2M from 48 charities:
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$216K
- Walsh Foundation$132K
- Aqueduct Foundation$100K
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$78K
- BenefAction Foundation$76K
- The Victoria Foundation$51K
- Canadahelps Canadon$44K
- Canadahelps Canadon$44K
- RBC Foundation$40K
- Vancouver Foundation$33K
- Toronto Foundation$30K
- Byram Family Foundation$28K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$27K
- John Hardie Mitchell Family Foundation$25K
- John Hardie Mitchell Family Foundation$25K
- The Wolrige Foundation$25K
- Seedlings Foundation$25K
- Cause We Care Foundation$20K
- Ocean Park Foundation$20K
- Ember Fund$20K
- DR. Ann Worth Charitable Foundation$20K
- Ames Family Foundation$20K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$17K
- Betty Averbach Foundation$16K
- John Hardie Mitchell Family Foundation$14K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9997 positions
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions40
- Total compensation, all staff$4M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Rick Schneider (director); Lucie Fournet (director); Monica Bohm (director); Rebecca Frederick (director); Megan Halprin (director); Joy Walcott-Francis (director); Elizabeth Miller (director); Samantha Tong (director); Soraya Parwani (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Aunt Leah's Independent Lifeskills Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 123041683RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.