AVI Health & Community Services Society
Publicly funded institution · Victoria, British Columbia · BN 130642440RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($12,749,458) as filed with the CRA.
AVI Health & Community Services Society is a charitable organization based in Victoria, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under core health care. 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 March 31, 2024, it reported $13M in revenue and $12.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 94% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 7 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $123K.
Compared with 538 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 25% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $160,000–199,999 range (3 positions in that band). The charity reported 51 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $4.6M in 2020 to $13M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Avi provides preventative education and support programs to people living with affected by ans at-rick for hiv hepatitis c and substance use on vancouver island. Targeted prevention and support programs are aimed to men who have sex with men indigenous communities women street-involved adults and youth prisoners and people who use substances. We provide long and short-term solutions based counseling advocacy support and referrals as well as workshops presentations and awareness events in the community. We also have one opioid substitution health clinics and a health canada funded pre…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $13M | $12.7M | $11.1M | — | — | $628K |
| 2023 | $8.9M | $8.9M | $7.9M | — | — | $511K |
| 2022 | $7.3M | $7M | $6.5M | — | — | $502K |
| 2021 | $6.2M | $6.2M | $5.8M | — | — | $205K |
| 2020 | $4.6M | $4.6M | $4.3M | — | — | $211K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $123K from 7 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9993 positions
- $120,000–159,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions51
- Total compensation, all staff$9.9M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Cherolyn Knapp (chair); Tyler Thompson (treasurer); Laird Douglas (director); Tammy Khana (director); Gillett Don (director); Tenywa Paul (director); Anthony Amato (director); Lara McLachlan (director); Miguel Strother (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from AVI Health & Community Services Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 130642440RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.