Burnaby Fire Fighters Charitable Society
Public foundation · Burnaby, British Columbia · BN 892341561RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($651,295) as filed with the CRA.
Burnaby Fire Fighters Charitable Society is a public foundation based in Burnaby, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $628K in revenue and $651K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 66% from donations, 9% from government. In 2024, 5 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $76K.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 15% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 21 qualified donees totalling $293K in 2024, the largest being $72K to Burnaby Hospital and Community Foundation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $388K in 2020 to $628K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 1 name.
In its own words
The money raised by the charity was given to other charities in the community with emphasis on medical care and research facilities. - provide cpr programs to burnaby high school students - supporting the healthy school snack program in burnaby schools. - supporting fish hatchery program
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $628K | $651K | $93K | $237K | $293K | $1.4M |
| 2023 | $663K | $876K | $85K | $256K | $481K | $1.4M |
| 2022 | $849K | $550K | $178K | $103K | $256K | $1.6M |
| 2021 | $193K | $307K | $94K | $15K | $193K | $1.3M |
| 2020 | $388K | $524K | $184K | $83K | $245K | $1.4M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $293K to 21 qualified donees:
- Burnaby Hospital and Community Foundation$72K
- Muscular Dystrophy Canada / Dystrophie musculaire Canada$43K
- Odd Squad Productions Society$30K
- Pals Autism Society$25K
- Royal Columbian Hospital Foundation$21K
- BCPFFA Burn Fund$20K
- Burnaby Urban Search and Rescue Society$18K
- Make-A-Wish Foundation of Canada$15K
- BC Cancer Foundation$15K
- Variety - the Children's Charity of BC$10K
- Burnaby Neighbourhood House Society$5,280
- Burnaby Sports Hall of Fame$5,100
- Blue Sea Philanthropy Inc.$3,000
- D.s.r.f. Down Syndrome Resource Foundation$2,000
- Canadahelps Canadon$2,000
- Surrey Fire Fighters Charitable Society$1,800
- Burnaby Citizen Support Services$1,500
- P.a.d.s$1,000
- Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society$1,000
- BC Cancer Foundation$510
- Givergy$311
Received $76K from 5 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Kevin Devine (vp school services).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Burnaby Fire Fighters Charitable Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 892341561RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.