Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention Centre of British Columbia
Publicly funded institution · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 106993322RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,670,608) as filed with the CRA.
Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention Centre of British Columbia is a charitable organization based in Vancouver, 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 $3.5M in revenue and $3.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 9% from donations, 67% from government, 9% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 30 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $670K.
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 25% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 79% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (5 positions in that band). The charity reported 31 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.3M in 2020 to $3.5M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
The crisis intervention and suicide prevention centre of british columbia (the 'centre') is a volunteer based organization committed to helping people help themselves and others deal with crisis. The centre primarily services the greater vancouver coastal health region of british columbia and provides extensive training to volunteers responsible for the delivery of crisis intervention and suicide prevention services. *in september 2023 we alongside nine other bc crisis centres onboarded to phsa's networked call centre allowing us to increase call answer rates from 43% to 76% in six months …
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.5M | $3.7M | $3M | $319K | — | $1.4M |
| 2023 | $2.6M | $2.7M | $2.2M | $258K | — | $1.5M |
| 2022 | $2.1M | $2.1M | $1.8M | $100K | — | $1.6M |
| 2021 | $2.4M | $1.8M | $1.5M | $5,432 | — | $1.6M |
| 2020 | $1.3M | $1.5M | $1.3M | $27K | — | $1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $670K from 30 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$171K
- Canadahelps Canadon$171K
- Walsh Foundation$98K
- Vancouver Foundation$38K
- CKNW Kids' Fund$30K
- Al Roadburg Foundation$25K
- The Victor & Anna Kern Foundation$25K
- RBC Foundation$24K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$13K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$11K
- BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust$11K
- West Vancouver Community Foundation$11K
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$5,337
- The Wolrige Foundation$5,000
- Aqueduct Foundation$5,000
- The Dayhu Family Foundation$5,000
- The Hutch Fund Society$4,200
- Holland Family Charitable Foundation$2,500
- UniPHARM & Medicine Centre Pharmacies Charitable Foundation$2,000
- Lohn Foundation$2,000
- The Hamber Foundation$2,000
- Kahn Foundation$2,000
- Djavad Mowafaghian Foundation$2,000
- Iain Harris Family Foundation$1,000
- Mel and Geri Davis Charitable Trust$1,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9995 positions
- $40,000–79,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions31
- Total compensation, all staff$2.8M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2023)
Hillary Bergshoeff (secretary); Cox Dan (director); Brandon Ma (treasurer); Alexis Martis (president); Alyssa Collins (director); Mark Price (past president); Doug Querns (director); Melisa Foster (director); Michael Lam (vice president).
As listed on its 2023 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention Centre of British Columbia’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 106993322RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.