Beacon Community Association
Publicly funded institution · Victoria, British Columbia · BN 129951174RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($21,309,280) as filed with the CRA.
Beacon Community Association is a charitable organization based in Victoria, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. 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 $21.2M in revenue and $21.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 57% from government, 6% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 9 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $806K.
Compared with 115 community-service institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 47% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 190 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $42M in 2020 to $21.2M in 2024.
In its own words
Beacon Community Association provides a broad range of social services such as health subsidized housing assisted living counselling family seniors and children's services employment services service agreement with Ministry of Advanced Education Skills & Training to provide training and supports to help B.C. job seekers find and maintain employment and improve employment readiness.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $21.2M | $21.3M | $19.2M | $63K | — | $16.6M |
| 2023 | $18.2M | $18.6M | $17M | — | — | $16.7M |
| 2022 | $15.6M | $15.7M | — | — | — | $16.6M |
| 2021 | $13.9M | $13.8M | $12.5M | — | — | $13.5M |
| 2020 | $42M | $40.7M | $40.4M | — | — | $13.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $806K from 9 charities:
- United Way British Columbia$460K
- United Way Southern Vancouver Island$250K
- The Victoria Foundation$45K
- The Quail Rock Foundation$22K
- Canadahelps Canadon$17K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$7,000
- BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust$3,073
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$1,141
- The Scottish Rite Charitable Foundation of Canada$1,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9998 positions
- Permanent full-time positions190
- Total compensation, all staff$14.1M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Beacon Community Association’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 129951174RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.