Family Services of Greater Vancouver
Publicly funded institution · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 118913102RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($29,748,373) as filed with the CRA.
Family Services of Greater Vancouver 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 March 31, 2024, it reported $28.5M in revenue and $29.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 76% from government, 5% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 24 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.5M.
Compared with 427 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 22% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 164 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
Family services of greater vancouver is a local not-for-profit society providing crucial social services to children youth adults and families in the lower mainland since 1928. Services provided range from prevention to intensive intervention including: abuse prevention and trauma treatment community education and development counseling employee assistance intensive family and parenting counseling support for youth with developmental disabilities victim support and counseling services for homeless and at-risk youth.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $28.5M | $29.7M | $25.7M | $502K | — | -$2.5M |
| 2023 | $27.3M | $27.7M | $24.3M | $566K | — | -$1.3M |
| 2022 | $26.5M | $27.2M | $24M | $470K | — | -$837K |
| 2021 | $26M | $26M | $22.8M | $405K | — | -$302K |
| 2020 | $25.4M | $26.1M | $22.9M | $467K | — | -$277K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $1.5M from 24 charities:
- Vancouver Foundation$615K
- Family Services of Greater Vancouver Foundation$238K
- United Way British Columbia$163K
- SpencerCreo Foundation$124K
- Raffi Foundation for Child Honouring$101K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$85K
- H W Siebens Charitable Foundation$45K
- Seedlings Foundation$25K
- Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society$21K
- TELUS Friendly Future Foundation$20K
- Canadahelps Canadon$16K
- Diamond Foundation$15K
- Grey Birch Foundation$15K
- Makeway Foundation$10K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$5,268
- Richmond Community Foundation$5,150
- The Amir and Yasmin Virani Family Foundation$5,000
- Unifor Social Justice Fund/Le fonds de justice sociale d'Unifor$5,000
- Parish of ST. Faith$4,304
- The Kinder Dream Foundation$2,500
- Abundance Canada$2,000
- The Hamber Foundation$2,000
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$500
- BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust$172
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
- $120,000–159,9993 positions
- $80,000–119,9996 positions
- Permanent full-time positions164
- Total compensation, all staff$19M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Terry Anne Boyles (director); Brian Demuy (director); Sarah Tutton Frost (director); Anthony Kirschner (chair); Karen Macmillan (director); Jacqueline Per (director); Juan Rendon (director); David Wells (board chair); Trevor Zeck (director); David Mueller (director); Elke Yeung (director); Alexa Young (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Family Services of Greater Vancouver’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118913102RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.