British Columbia Professional Fire Fighters' Burn Fund
Charitable organization · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 891475345RR0001 · Supportive Health Care
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,717,473) as filed with the CRA.
British Columbia Professional Fire Fighters' Burn Fund is a charitable organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under supportive health care. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $4.5M in revenue and $2.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 61% from donations. In 2024, 39 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $784K.
Compared with 453 health charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 20% of peers. The charity reported 8 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 2 qualified donees totalling $275K in 2024, the largest being $200K to VGH & Ubc Hospital Foundation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.9M in 2020 to $4.5M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 17 names.
In its own words
Sponsoring of educational seminars - supporting hospital for burn care treatment initiates/equipment - sponsoring of youth camps and programs for burn survivors - distribution of educational materials for fire prevention - sponsoring contests for schools re: burn awareness - run a building to help accomodate burn survivors and their families
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.5M | $2.7M | $1.3M | $749K | $275K | $15.6M |
| 2023 | $2.5M | $2.5M | $747K | $711K | $390K | $13.8M |
| 2022 | $2.5M | $2.2M | $870K | $777K | $200K | $13.7M |
| 2021 | $3M | $1.8M | $961K | $426K | $93K | $13.5M |
| 2020 | $1.9M | $2.1M | $1.2M | $368K | $25K | $12.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $275K to 2 qualified donees:
Received $784K from 39 charities:
- The Jack & Darlene Poole Foundation$350K
- Aqueduct Foundation$103K
- The River Foundation$35K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$24K
- Coquitlam Fire Fighters Charitable Society$22K
- Township of Langley Professional Firefighter`s Local 4550 Charitable Society$21K
- Fort St. John Firefighters Charitable Society$20K
- District of North Vancouver Firefighters Charitable Society Local 1183 I.A.F.F.$18K
- Kelowna Professional Firefighters Charitable Society$17K
- The Victor & Anna Kern Foundation$15K
- Delta Fire Fighters Charitable Society$15K
- Victoria Fire Fighters Charitable Foundation$15K
- Canadahelps Canadon$14K
- Port Moody Fire Fighters' Charitable Society$12K
- Saanich Fire Fighters Charitable Foundation$10K
- Maple Ridge Firefighters Charitable Society$10K
- Powell River Professional Fire Fighters Charitable Society$10K
- Vancouver Fire Fighters' Charitable Society$10K
- Vancouver Fire Fighters' Charitable Society$10K
- Mission Fire Fighters' Charitable Society$8,000
- West Vancouver Fire Fighters Charitable Society$8,000
- Richmond Firefighters Society$6,239
- Maple Ridge Firefighters Charitable Society$5,000
- The Kapoor Singh Siddoo Foundation$5,000
- Oak Bay Fire Fighters Charitable Foundation$3,500
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Permanent full-time positions8
- Total compensation, all staff$868K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Todd Schierling (president); Brian Catinus (secretary / treasurer); Ray Boucher (vice-president); Lois Budd; Graeme Currie; Grant Smith; Jodi Kabernick; Amanda Roman; Erin Moore-Dempsey; James Docherty; Umesh Lal; Kirk Corby; Murray Robertson; Jason Milne; Pat Barton; Brent Morgan; Jeff Sauvé (executive director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from British Columbia Professional Fire Fighters' Burn Fund’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 891475345RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.