Connective Support Society
Publicly funded institution · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 107542573RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($57,596,354) as filed with the CRA.
Connective Support Society is a charitable organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. 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 $55.6M in revenue and $57.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 94% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 8 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $439K.
Compared with 115 community-service institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 68% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 100% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $300,000–349,999 range. The charity reported 418 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $16.6M in 2020 to $55.6M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
Connective is a community-based social services nonprofit operating in BC and the Yukon to create safe healthy and inclusive communities for all. Over the past 90 years we’ve woven a strong social safety net that addresses the needs of all who walk through our doors. At Connective we see a path forward for everyone with opportunities to learn grow and develop—on their own terms and at their own pace. We enable this through a continuum of innovative and dynamic housing life-skills outreach employment and community-based services with the goal of assisting individuals to achieve grea…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $55.6M | $57.6M | $53.9M | $0 | $0 | $6.9M |
| 2023 | $42.8M | $46.9M | $44.6M | $0 | $0 | $8.2M |
| 2022 | $28M | $28.7M | $27.3M | $0 | $0 | $8.6M |
| 2021 | $20.8M | $20.3M | $19.1M | — | — | $8.7M |
| 2020 | $16.6M | — | — | — | — | $8M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $439K from 8 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $300,000–349,9991 position
- $250,000–299,9992 positions
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9996 positions
- Permanent full-time positions418
- Total compensation, all staff$38M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Tim Stiles (director); Pat Alexander (director); Sundeep Thakur (director); Brent Mulhall (director); Jayce Allen (chair); Don Rogers (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Connective Support Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 107542573RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.