Chabad of Vancouver Island
Charitable organization · Victoria, British Columbia · BN 835749417RR0001 · Judaism · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,841,187) as filed with the CRA.
Chabad of Vancouver Island is a charitable organization based in Victoria, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under judaism. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.8M in revenue and $1.8M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 33% from donations, 30% from government. In 2024, 11 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $31K.
Compared with 2,238 religious charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 7% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (8 positions in that band). The charity reported 13 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $37K in 2024, the largest being $37K to Chabad of Nanaimo Society. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $820K in 2020 to $1.8M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
Chabad enriches jewsih identity and helps ensure jewish continuity through a variety of educational religious and social services that increase jewish pride knowledge and commitment
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.8M | $1.8M | $608K | — | $37K | $4M |
| 2023 | $2.9M | $1.4M | $465K | $36K | $129K | $4M |
| 2022 | $1.1M | $1.1M | $188K | $34K | $10K | $2.5M |
| 2021 | $1.1M | $856K | $204K | $27K | $2,936 | $2.6M |
| 2020 | $820K | $774K | $226K | $21K | $40K | $2.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $37K to 1 qualified donee:
Received $31K from 11 charities:
- The Jewish Federation of Victoria and Vancouver Island Society$14K
- CharityEx Foundation$5,000
- Central Organization for Jewish Education Lubavitch British Columbia$3,600
- Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto$3,000
- Vancouver Foundation$1,800
- Salomon Robinson Family Foundation$1,800
- ZLC Foundation$1,000
- Canadahelps Canadon$480
- BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust$369
- Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal$360
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$200
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9998 positions
- $1–39,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions13
- Total compensation, all staff$758K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Rabbi Yechiel Baitelman; Rabbi Benjamin Bitton (director); Chani Kaplan (director); Rabbi Meir Kaplan (director); Bentzion Shemtov (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Chabad of Vancouver Island’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 835749417RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.