DIVERSEcity Community Resources Society
Publicly funded institution · Surrey, British Columbia · BN 119206589RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($24,946,154) as filed with the CRA.
DIVERSEcity Community Resources Society is a charitable organization based in Surrey, 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 $25.3M in revenue and $24.9M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 82% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 12 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $957K.
Compared with 427 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 74% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 142 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $13M in 2020 to $25.3M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
Diversecity community resources society empowers newcomers and other diverse communities to build the life they want through programs and services in language settlement employment counselling and interpretation and translation. Our services include one on one and group settlement support employment programs language training specialised service for refugees youth seniors and children family and individual counselling substance use counselling food security program and more. These services support our mission ' to inspire belonging in a strong integrated community by empowering new…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $25.3M | $24.9M | $23.8M | — | — | $4.8M |
| 2023 | $21.4M | $21.4M | $20K | — | — | $4.4M |
| 2022 | $17.6M | $17.4M | $15.7M | $0 | — | $4.4M |
| 2021 | $13.7M | $13.8M | $12.5M | $0 | $0 | $4.2M |
| 2020 | $13M | $12.7M | $11.3M | — | — | $3.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $957K from 12 charities:
- United Way British Columbia$745K
- Right To Food$50K
- RBC Foundation$50K
- Vancouver Foundation$30K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$25K
- Canadian Women's Foundation$22K
- Canadian Women's Foundation$22K
- TD Friends of the Environment Foundation$8,945
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$3,000
- Canadahelps Canadon$2,026
- Gore Mutual Insurance Company Foundation$500
- Surrey Fire Fighters Charitable Society—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9992 positions
- $80,000–119,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions142
- Total compensation, all staff$17M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Amitpal Gill (director); Sukhinider Parmar (treasurer); Kamaljit Raman (director); Jane Shin (secretary); Upkar Singh Tatlay (president); Jason Wong (director); Cindy Zheng (director); James Delorme (president).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from DIVERSEcity Community Resources Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119206589RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.