Community Connections Society of Southeast BC
Publicly funded institution · Cranbrook, British Columbia · BN 128639234RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($6,463,485) as filed with the CRA.
Community Connections Society of Southeast BC is a charitable organization based in Cranbrook, 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 $6.6M in revenue and $6.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 76% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 11 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $327K.
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 43% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (7 positions in that band). The charity reported 37 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $3.9M in 2020 to $6.6M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
1) operate a resource and drop-in centre for women and their families to provide assistance with basic needs support advocacy and community referrals. 2) provide the travelling advocate program to assist individuals with poverty law issues. 3) administer the child care resource and referral program to assist and support parents and child care providers. 4) administer a supported child development and infant development program to assist children with special needs access licensed child care. 5) sponsor the better babies pregnancy outreach program to provide pregnancy support and outr…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $6.6M | $6.5M | $5.7M | — | — | $629K |
| 2023 | $5.1M | $5M | $4.3M | — | — | $520K |
| 2022 | $4.7M | $4.5M | $4M | — | — | $931K |
| 2021 | $4.4M | $3.9M | $3.7M | $30K | — | $810K |
| 2020 | $3.9M | $3.7M | $3.3M | $38K | — | $374K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $327K from 11 charities:
- United Way British Columbia$176K
- Community Foundation of the Kootenay Rockies$73K
- Vancouver Foundation$30K
- Blue Sea Philanthropy Inc.$25K
- Canadahelps Canadon$18K
- Kimberley & District Community Foundation$1,588
- BenefAction Foundation$1,000
- H W Siebens Charitable Foundation$1,000
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$500
- United Way British Columbia$450
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$0
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9997 positions
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions37
- Total compensation, all staff$4.9M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Paul Knipe (chair); Susan Vollmer (director); Bob Kennedy (director); Ryan Gibbard (director); Melissa Scott (director); Katie Lacey (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Community Connections Society of Southeast BC’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 128639234RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.