Downtown Society for the Fellowship of Recovering Alcoholics
Publicly funded institution · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 132132416RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($920,747) as filed with the CRA.
Downtown Society for the Fellowship of Recovering Alcoholics is a charitable organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under core health care. 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 $980K in revenue and $921K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 98% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 3 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $17K.
Compared with 739 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 93% of peers. The charity reported 6 permanent full-time positions.
In its own words
24 hour a day-7days a week drop-in and referral centre providing drop-in services and counseling to persons facing drug addiction and substance abuse. Included here are: sobriety 12 step meetings safe shelter assessments and referrals to health authority-approved housing shelters detox treatment centers and recovery houses. Bc housing funded street outreach program to assist street entrenched homeless seek and receive shelter social assistance food clothing and medical attention. Saferide program that provides safe transportation for addicts and homeless in the recovery system. Safe…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $980K | $921K | $921K | — | — | $508K |
| 2023 | $725K | $676K | $676K | — | — | $448K |
| 2022 | $733K | $720K | — | — | — | $399K |
| 2021 | $720K | $718K | $718K | — | — | $387K |
| 2020 | $726K | $666K | — | — | — | $322K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $17K from 3 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Permanent full-time positions6
- Total compensation, all staff$581K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Downtown Society for the Fellowship of Recovering Alcoholics’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 132132416RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.