Burnaby Neighbourhood House Society
Charitable organization · Burnaby, British Columbia · BN 873903090RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($7,061,101) as filed with the CRA.
Burnaby Neighbourhood House Society is a charitable organization based in Burnaby, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending August 31, 2024, it reported $7.5M in revenue and $7.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 49% from government, 12% from other charities. In 2024, 17 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.3M.
Compared with 1,125 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 46% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (6 positions in that band). The charity reported 32 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $3.7M in 2020 to $7.5M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
We provide information & referral and general support to people in our community. We provide low cost activity programs that are run by volunteers. 1 060 volunteers donated 20 033 hours. We provide free family place drop-in at 3 sites (also offered virtually during health pandemic) parenting resources and early literacy. We operate 2 community kitchen programs for low income families. We operate 9 licensed school age childcare centers. We host monthly low cost community dinners. We offer a community-building neighbourhood Small Grants program. We provide 2 levels of leadership training for y…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $7.5M | $7.1M | $6.1M | $32K | — | $1.4M |
| 2023 | $6M | $5.8M | $5.3M | $29K | — | $984K |
| 2022 | $4.8M | $4.8M | $4.3M | $24K | — | $821K |
| 2021 | $4.3M | $4.4M | $3.9M | $251 | — | $863K |
| 2020 | $3.7M | $3.4M | $3M | $14K | — | $919K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $1.3M from 17 charities:
- Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society$585K
- United Way British Columbia$488K
- Vancouver Foundation$132K
- Food Banks Canada/Banques Alimentaires Canada$25K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$20K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$10K
- Petro-Canada CareMakers Foundation Fondation Proches Aimants Petro-Canada$7,500
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$6,000
- Canadahelps Canadon$5,855
- Burnaby Fire Fighters Charitable Society$5,280
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$3,000
- Decoda Literacy Foundation$1,403
- The Zoroastrian Society of British Columbia$1,100
- PNG Enterprise Foundation$1,000
- Randall Foundation$1,000
- Vancity Community Foundation$1,000
- BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust$28
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9996 positions
- $40,000–79,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions32
- Total compensation, all staff$5.3M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Ted Wiens (vice chair/chair); Sue Montabello (secretary); Kevin Rakhra (board member); Alfred Romann (board member/vice chair); Kathryn Yamamoto (board member/fundraising chair); Ronnie Bahia (board member); Harjit Sandhu (board member); Kathy Berggren-Clive (board member); Ying Qian (Jenny) Zhao (board member); Nikhil Jain (treasurer); Kelvin Wu (board member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Burnaby Neighbourhood House Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 873903090RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.