Downtown South Gathering Place Community Centre Association
Publicly funded institution · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 892723164RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($73,433) as filed with the CRA.
Downtown South Gathering Place Community Centre Association 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 December 31, 2024, it reported $103K in revenue and $73K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 37% from donations, 58% from government, 5% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 7 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $115K.
Compared with 1,890 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 62% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $49K in 2020 to $103K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
Dsgpcca once again hosted the hallows festival in october 2024. Incorporating cultural practices from around the world hallows festival honours the dead using art music community workshops ceremony shrines and rituals. Other ongoing programs included providing free meals at weekly friday music events as well as free community dinners distributing food vouchers to local retailers to give to needy residents in the community bingo programming andd other social and recreational opportunities for low-income residents of the downtown south community.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $103K | $73K | $66K | — | — | $103K |
| 2023 | $38K | $47K | $41K | — | — | — |
| 2022 | $75K | $69K | $68K | — | — | — |
| 2021 | $35K | $78K | $77K | — | — | — |
| 2020 | $49K | $22K | $21K | — | — | — |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $115K from 7 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Total compensation, all staff$4,988
Schedule 3 of its 2023 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Sandi Bassett (vice president); Terry Soper (treasurer); Shiva Khodabaksh (secretary).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Downtown South Gathering Place Community Centre Association’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 892723164RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.