First Steps Health Society
Charitable organization · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 821724036RR0001 · Protective Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($194,515) as filed with the CRA.
First Steps Health Society is a charitable organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under protective health care. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $397K in revenue and $195K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 50% from donations, 36% from other charities. In 2024, 14 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $168K.
Compared with 1,130 health charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 1% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 85% of that peer group. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group.
Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $882K in 2020 to $397K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
First steps partners contiune to use energy-efficient machines provided by us and beans that are grown locally(by our partners) to produce protein-rich soymilk for children in dayarecares kindergartens and orphanages in north korea.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $397K | $195K | $5,630 | $3,111 | — | $2.2M |
| 2023 | $490K | $237K | $40K | $14K | — | $2M |
| 2022 | $689K | $217K | $37K | $5,944 | — | $1.7M |
| 2021 | $873K | $292K | $47K | $37K | $31K | $1.3M |
| 2020 | $882K | $549K | $387K | $18K | — | $692K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $168K from 14 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$64K
- Canadahelps Canadon$64K
- The First Baptist Church of Vancouver$11K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$8,069
- The Pannell Family Foundation$5,500
- Good Stewards Church$3,300
- The Saeson Presbyterian Church in Canada$3,000
- Wooden Cross Church$2,400
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$1,500
- Christian Stewardship Services$1,250
- Sharon Evangelical Lutheran Church (donalda Ab)$1,145
- First Christian Reformed Church of Red Deer$1,070
- The Embodied Church of Christ$1,000
- Gospel Church in Langley$460
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Total compensation, all staff$135K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Susan Ritchie (executive director); Madeline Harden (director); Valorie Day (director); Mary Wong-Moon (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from First Steps Health Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 821724036RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.