British Columbia Lung Association
Publicly funded institution · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 106811979RR0001 · Core Health Care
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($5,654,715) as filed with the CRA.
British Columbia Lung Association is a charitable organization based in Vancouver, 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 $5.1M in revenue and $5.7M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 38% from donations, 52% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 33 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $130K.
Compared with 717 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 16% 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 $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 15 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
The british columbia lung association carried out a variety of public and professional education activities and programs including workshops community lecture series and international conferences on various lung diseases. They have also provided funding for medical research and training of health professionals. Programs included: presentations on lung health asthma obstructive lung disease and publications on lung cancer emphysema tuberculosis smoking and pneumonia
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $5.1M | $5.7M | $4.5M | $728K | — | $8.9M |
| 2023 | $4.9M | $5.8M | $4.1M | $732K | — | $8.8M |
| 2022 | $6.1M | $5.1M | $4M | $528K | $95K | $9.6M |
| 2021 | $5.2M | $5.5M | $4.1M | $611K | $201K | $8.2M |
| 2020 | $4.9M | $5.6M | $3.9M | $926K | $201K | $7.8M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $130K from 33 charities:
- Aqueduct Foundation$40K
- Vancouver Foundation$19K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$16K
- Canadahelps Canadon$14K
- BenefAction Foundation$8,020
- Central Okanagan Foundation$6,732
- Lohn Foundation$4,500
- The Victoria Foundation$3,041
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$2,209
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,630
- Mel and Geri Davis Charitable Trust$1,500
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$1,500
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,349
- BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust$1,293
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$1,084
- Coquitlam Fire Fighters Charitable Society$1,000
- Purkids Charitable Foundation$1,000
- Margaret Rothweiler Charitable Foundation$1,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$900
- Link Charity Canada Inc$740
- Canadian Celiac Association British Columbia$600
- United Way of Greater Toronto$550
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$550
- Port Moody Fire Fighters' Charitable Society$500
- Vancity Community Foundation$482
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9994 positions
- $40,000–79,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions15
- Total compensation, all staff$1.4M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jacquelyn Brinkman (director); Carolyn Chorneychuk (director); Tom Desorcy (director); Michael Ellis (director); Richard Elwood (treasurer); Richard Gage (director); Muff Hackett (director); Robyn Wilson (director); Sharon Korol (director); Keith Murray (director); Robert Schellenberg (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from British Columbia Lung Association’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 106811979RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.