British Columbia Guide Dog Services
Publicly funded institution · Delta, British Columbia · BN 891311763RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($2,865,531) as filed with the CRA.
British Columbia Guide Dog Services is a charitable organization based in Delta, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under teaching institutions. 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 June 30, 2024, it reported $3.7M in revenue and $2.9M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 48% from donations, 5% from government, 32% from other charities. In 2024, 54 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.7M.
Compared with 1,247 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 23% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (5 positions in that band). The charity reported 24 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $2.2M in 2020 to $3.7M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
Breeding raising and training canines for work as guide dogs and service dogs. Providing services to persons with visual impairment children with autism veterans RCMP and first responders with operational stress injuries/PTSD through the provision of professionally trained guide dogs and service dogs. BC Guide Dog Services also participates in special events for fundraising purposes public awareness and education.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.7M | $2.9M | $2.3M | $321K | — | $3.8M |
| 2023 | $2.9M | $2.7M | $1.8M | $452K | — | $3M |
| 2022 | $2.7M | — | — | — | — | $2.8M |
| 2021 | $2.6M | $1.6M | $1.1M | $244K | — | $2.1M |
| 2020 | $2.2M | $2.1M | $1.5M | $388K | — | $1.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $1.7M from 54 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$271K
- Canadahelps Canadon$271K
- The Calgary Foundation$240K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$177K
- British Columbia/yukon Command of the Royal Canadian Legion Foundation$120K
- The River Foundation$104K
- The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act$100K
- Canada Gives$60K
- Aqueduct Foundation$30K
- Mackenzie Investments Charitable Foundation$25K
- The Victoria Foundation$24K
- PNG Enterprise Foundation$23K
- The Calgary Foundation$21K
- DR. Ann Worth Charitable Foundation$20K
- The Rix Family Foundation$20K
- Sutherland Foundation Inc$15K
- The Canadian Tilling Foundation$15K
- Ames Family Foundation$15K
- BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust$14K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$14K
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$12K
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$11K
- John Hardie Mitchell Family Foundation$10K
- John Hardie Mitchell Family Foundation$10K
- The Donald And Eleanor Seaman Family Foundation$10K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9995 positions
- $40,000–79,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions24
- Total compensation, all staff$1.7M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Linda Reid (chair); Tammy Winters (vice-chair); Kelly Guichon (treasurer); Peter Hrdlitschka (director); Steve Darling (director); Peter Roaf (secretary).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from British Columbia Guide Dog Services’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 891311763RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.