Children's Hearing and Speech Centre of BC Inc.
Publicly funded institution · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 119282044RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($3,457,728) as filed with the CRA.
Children's Hearing and Speech Centre of BC Inc. is a charitable organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under teaching institutions. 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 June 30, 2024, it reported $3.5M in revenue and $3.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 7% from donations, 56% from government, 7% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 21 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $224K.
Compared with 1,247 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 45% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $120,000–159,999 range (6 positions in that band). The charity reported 21 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 3 qualified donees totalling $76K in 2024, the largest being $43K to Night Hoops Basketball Society. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
The primary goal of the children's hearing and speech centre is to provide a cognitively-based comprehensive auditory-oral education option for children with hearing loss. Adopting an educational approach and philosophy that supports early detection of hearing loss and based on developing high levels of listening spoken language and literacy children's hearing aims to offer children with hearing loss the opportunity to fully achieve their potential.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.5M | $3.5M | $2.9M | $87K | $76K | $1.8M |
| 2023 | $2.7M | $2.8M | $2.3M | $40K | $89K | $1.7M |
| 2022 | $2.4M | $2.3M | $1.9M | $44K | $997 | $1.8M |
| 2021 | $2.1M | — | — | — | — | $1.7M |
| 2020 | $2.4M | $2.5M | $2M | $43K | $33K | $1.9M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $76K to 3 qualified donees:
Received $224K from 21 charities:
- Vancouver Foundation$69K
- Children's Hearing and Speech Centre of BC Foundation$28K
- The Wolrige Foundation$25K
- The Tuey Charitable Foundation$25K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$20K
- Rina M. Bidin Foundation$11K
- CW Asia Fund Foundation$10K
- The 1988 Foundation$10K
- The Houssian Foundation$5,474
- John Hardie Mitchell Family Foundation$5,000
- Richmond Community Foundation$5,000
- The Marchab Foundation$2,500
- The Hamber Foundation$2,000
- The Andrew Mahon Foundation$2,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$1,824
- Canadahelps Canadon$1,032
- United Way British Columbia$500
- Mel and Geri Davis Charitable Trust$500
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$500
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$104
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$44
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9996 positions
- $80,000–119,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions21
- Total compensation, all staff$2.9M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Scott Mackenzie; Robin Bardon; Anson Frost; Barzin Assadi; Stephen Lewis; Juma Wood (secretary); Emily Finn (vice chair); Michael Sauder (treasurer); Joel Smith; Andrea Manchon (president and chair); Karly Cook.
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Children's Hearing and Speech Centre of BC Inc.’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119282044RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.