Cortes Community Housing Society
Charitable organization · Mansons Landing, British Columbia · BN 743355471RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($151,801) as filed with the CRA.
Cortes Community Housing Society is a charitable organization based in Mansons Landing, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $929K in revenue and $152K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 81% from donations, 16% from other charities. In 2024, 3 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $103K.
Compared with 2,470 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 8% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 87% of that peer group. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $39K in 2024, the largest being $39K to Southern Cortes Community Association. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
The cortes community housing society (chs) continues its ongoing charitable mission: to relieve poverty by providing and operating affordable housing and incidental facilities for low to modest income households on cortes island bc. Over the past fiscal year chs has continued to raise money towards our mission the staff and volunteer board of directors have been working on our on-going program to create 24 new affordable year round rental homes on 6-acres of our rainbow ridge property. We continue to work with our stake holders donors architects engineers and consultants to finalize the s…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2022–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $929K | $152K | $24K | $4,498 | $39K | $2.1M |
| 2023 | $53K | $114K | $67K | — | $500 | $1.3M |
| 2022 | $1.4M | $38K | $9,687 | $167 | — | $1.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $39K to 1 qualified donee:
Received $103K from 3 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Elizabeth Anderson (president); Carol London (treasurer/secretary); David Rousseau (director); Bill Weaver (vice president); Huong Luu; Bruce Partridge (director); Trygve Ellingsen (director); Elijah McKenty (director); Mark Lombard (director); Karen Mahon (director); Billie Taylor (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Cortes Community Housing Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 743355471RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.