Better Living Centre; Lillooet Seventh-day Adventist Company
Charitable organization · Abbotsford, British Columbia · BN 118818491RR0115 · Christianity
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($326,781) as filed with the CRA.
Better Living Centre; Lillooet Seventh-day Adventist Company is a charitable organization based in Abbotsford, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under christianity. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $333K in revenue and $327K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 97% from donations. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $2,500.
Compared with 14,125 religious charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 81% of peers.
It reported gifts to 2 qualified donees totalling $229K in 2024, the largest being $228K to Seventh Day Adventist Church (british Columbia Conference). Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $220K in 2020 to $333K in 2024.
In its own words
We conduct weekly religious worship services to teach the gospel provide religious instruction for children conduct religious outreach program to the local community provide pastoral care counselling and mentoring provide ministries for women youth and children weekly donate funds to denomination headquarters for regional and worldwide mission activities and distribute religious materials to the community throughout the year.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $333K | $327K | $95K | — | $229K | $173K |
| 2023 | $312K | $283K | $89K | — | $191K | $167K |
| 2022 | $290K | $267K | $56K | — | $210K | $138K |
| 2021 | $208K | $196K | $40K | — | $155K | $114K |
| 2020 | $220K | $191K | $52K | — | $139K | $102K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $229K to 2 qualified donees:
Received $2,500 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Total compensation, all staff$17K
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 Better Living Centre; Lillooet Seventh-day Adventist Company’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118818491RR0115), or read how we compute the receipt.