First Nations' Emergency Services Society of B.C.
Publicly funded institution · North Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 894884246RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($25,898,426) as filed with the CRA.
First Nations' Emergency Services Society of B.C. is a charitable organization based in North Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. 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 $27.5M in revenue and $25.9M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 94% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 5 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $16K.
Compared with 115 community-service institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 27% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $120,000–159,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 99 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $4.1M in 2020 to $27.5M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
Fire services emergency management forest fuel management: provide training education and individualand community development. Critical incident stress: provide emergency incident stress management forfirst nations community members. The on-reserve operational fuel treatment program assists communities to undertake operational fuel treatments that are set out in a prescription in areas identified as prioritiesin a cwpp. The primary objective of the program is to maximize the number of hectares treated in areas thatpose the greatest risk of wildfire to communities. In addition grant f…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $27.5M | $25.9M | $22.5M | — | — | $2.7M |
| 2023 | $19.7M | $19.8M | $17.8M | — | — | $1.1M |
| 2022 | $8.4M | $7.6M | $7.1M | — | — | $1.2M |
| 2021 | $4.9M | $4.8M | $4.2M | — | — | $346K |
| 2020 | $4.1M | $4M | $3.3M | — | — | $271K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $16K from 5 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9992 positions
- $80,000–119,99932 positions
- $40,000–79,99921 positions
- $1–39,99918 positions
- Permanent full-time positions99
- Total compensation, all staff$7.3M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Stephen SR Hunt (director); Charlene Joe (vice-president); Michael Kelly (secretary/treasurer); Anthony Moore (president); Walter Dave Paul (director); Linzy Elliott (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from First Nations' Emergency Services Society of B.C.’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 894884246RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.