Chilliwack Community Services
Publicly funded institution · Chilliwack, British Columbia · BN 118852797RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($8,371,852) as filed with the CRA.
Chilliwack Community Services is a charitable organization based in Chilliwack, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. 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 March 31, 2024, it reported $8.8M in revenue and $8.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 6% from donations, 70% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 15 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $852K.
Compared with 1,618 poverty-relief 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 (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 54 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $5.8M in 2020 to $8.8M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 13 names.
In its own words
Staff and volunteers work side by side to provide a wide variety of programs and services in the following areas: strengthening families; developing children and youth into responsible citizens; enabling seniors and the disabled to lead independent lives; helping people deal with distress and crises in their lives including specialized and employment services for immigrants; housing for at risk youth and adults.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $8.8M | $8.4M | $7.4M | $175K | — | $5.6M |
| 2023 | $7.7M | $7.4M | $6.6M | $146K | — | $5.1M |
| 2022 | $7.1M | $6.7M | $6.1M | $120K | — | $4.8M |
| 2021 | $6.8M | $6.5M | $5.8M | $96K | — | $3M |
| 2020 | $5.8M | $5.4M | $4.7M | $120K | — | $2.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $852K from 15 charities:
- United Way British Columbia$373K
- Chilliwack Housing For Homeless Foundation$300K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$70K
- Chilliwack Foundation$31K
- H W Siebens Charitable Foundation$30K
- Canadahelps Canadon$18K
- Canadahelps Canadon$18K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$4,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$2,910
- Aqueduct Foundation$2,000
- Cornerstone Christian Reformed Church of Chilliwack$1,339
- Abundance Canada$500
- The Gwynne-Vaughan Park Society$300
- The Board of Education of School District No. 33 (Chilliwack)$210
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$25
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9992 positions
- $80,000–119,9998 positions
- Permanent full-time positions54
- Total compensation, all staff$5.7M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Dan Bibby (director); Paul Donaldson (director); Jeffrey Hunt (secretary-treasurer); Jason Laynes (director); Corinne McCabe (director); Peter Monteith (director); Jessie Ramsay (director); Chris Veenstra (president); Luke Zacharias (director); Chris Csoka (director); Derek Epp (director); Brooke Janzen (director); Brian Westwell (vice-president).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Chilliwack Community Services’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118852797RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.