Downtown Eastside Neighbourhood House Society
Charitable organization · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 858855653RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($493,725) as filed with the CRA.
Downtown Eastside Neighbourhood House Society is a charitable organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $546K in revenue and $494K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 18% from donations, 41% from government, 40% from other charities. In 2024, 14 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $365K.
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 26% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 94% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $40,000–79,999 range. The charity reported 6 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $334K in 2020 to $546K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Drop-in meal programs including family drop in (for parents and caregivers and childre ages 0-18) early years drop in (for parents & caregivers and children ages 0-6) community drop in (open to all). After school programs for elementary aged kids including tutoring painting and drawing classes and kids community kitchen. Other ongoing programs include let's speak up! (community leadership program) tuesday night prep group (community kitchen) nutritional outreach including banana beat mobile smoothie project crab park meals seasonal extreme heat response initiatives and cooling center…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $546K | $494K | $371K | $25 | — | $263K |
| 2023 | $595K | $694K | $619K | $6,351 | — | $81K |
| 2022 | $550K | $505K | $453K | $1,668 | — | $180K |
| 2021 | $666K | $600K | $537K | $2,780 | — | $134K |
| 2020 | $334K | $335K | $284K | $993 | — | $68K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $365K from 14 charities:
- United Way British Columbia$104K
- Canadahelps Canadon$75K
- Canadahelps Canadon$75K
- Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society$32K
- Central City Foundation$30K
- Young Foundation$18K
- Face the World Foundation$10K
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$9,410
- Click - Contributing to Lives of Inner City Kids Society$5,000
- GMR Foundation$3,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$2,598
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$1,500
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$500
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$252
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- $1–39,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions6
- Total compensation, all staff$171K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Benita Ho (chair); Brandon Taylor (treasurer); Carina De Andrade Baldwin (secretary); Duncan Schell (director); Elizabeth Ballantyne (director); Tom Kemple (director); Marvin Delorme (director); Sonya Sze-To (director); Brenin Nobleman (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Downtown Eastside Neighbourhood House Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 858855653RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.