BabyGoRound Helping Families Society
Charitable organization · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 821516507RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($616,245) as filed with the CRA.
BabyGoRound Helping Families Society is a charitable organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $560K in revenue and $616K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 67% from donations, 18% from government, 15% from other charities. In 2024, 30 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $341K.
Compared with 2,470 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 64% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 79% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 3 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $191K in 2020 to $560K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
Babygoround provides essential baby items including gear diapers and clothing to families in need throughout the lower mainland. We work with a network of approximately 95 health and social service agencies including the ywca domestic violence shelters hospitals youth and teen pregnancy programs and programs supporting families new to canada to identiify these families in need. These families then come to our store-like facility where they are able to shop for the items they need and take them home free of charge. Most often these include several costly items like a crib stroller front …
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $560K | $616K | $575K | $5,211 | — | $220K |
| 2023 | $489K | $1.5M | $1.5M | $644 | — | $277K |
| 2022 | $372K | $976K | $974K | $1,174 | — | $248K |
| 2021 | $292K | $243K | $241K | $1,362 | — | $191K |
| 2020 | $191K | $242K | $239K | $2,800 | — | $142K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $341K from 30 charities:
- The River Foundation$50K
- B.C. Social Venture Partners Foundation$34K
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Canada$34K
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$26K
- Openroad Foundation$24K
- Seedlings Foundation$20K
- TELUS Friendly Future Foundation$20K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$20K
- Wesmont Foundation$15K
- Face the World Foundation$15K
- Randall Foundation$11K
- Cause We Care Foundation$10K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$10K
- Munford Family Foundation$10K
- Canadahelps Canadon$8,440
- The Shields Foundation$7,500
- The Houssian Foundation$5,149
- BenefAction Foundation$5,000
- The Highbury Foundation$2,500
- The Payton Taylor Charitable Foundation$2,000
- The Andrew Mahon Foundation$2,000
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$1,666
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$1,500
- Roman Catholic Archbishop of Vancouver$1,401
- Aqueduct Foundation$1,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions3
- Total compensation, all staff$359K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Lynda Phinney (board chair); Nicole Cumming (board secretary); Theresa Pearson (board member); Cecily Lawrenson (board member); Jacqueline Missula (board member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from BabyGoRound Helping Families Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 821516507RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.