Empowered Support Services Society
Publicly funded institution · Hope, British Columbia · BN 828681494RR0001 · Educational Organizations Not Elsewhere Categorized · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-10-31. Split of total expenditures ($550,875) as filed with the CRA.
Empowered Support Services Society is a charitable organization based in Hope, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under educational organizations not elsewhere categorized. 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 October 31, 2024, it reported $624K in revenue and $551K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 91% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $7,403.
Compared with 1,540 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 92% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $40,000–79,999 range. The charity reported 1 permanent full-time position.
In its own words
Empowered support services society promotes life skill ilteracy programs that acknowledge peoples needs and work together to teach those skills and empower others to fulfill those needs. In this way we become more than we can be by ourselves and as a community can be something we are all proud of. Purpose: located in hope bc the read right society's purpose is to: develop and deliver literacy programs to the community establish maintain and operate an educational training centre that delivers literacy training to the community operate a drop-in centre that offers life skills and literacy …
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $624K | $551K | $551K | — | — | $231K |
| 2023 | $575K | $502K | $88K | — | — | $231K |
| 2022 | $598K | $556K | $566K | — | — | $158K |
| 2021 | $502K | $557K | — | — | — | $115K |
| 2020 | $478K | $387K | — | — | — | $170K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $7,403 from 2 charities:
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
- Permanent full-time positions1
- Total compensation, all staff$417K
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 Empowered Support Services Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 828681494RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.