First United Church Community Ministry Society
Publicly funded institution · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 826726135RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-09-30. Split of total expenditures ($6,897,430) as filed with the CRA.
First United Church Community Ministry Society is a charitable organization based in 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 September 30, 2024, it reported $7.1M in revenue and $6.9M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 23% from donations, 92% from government, 92% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 63 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $4.2M.
Compared with 829 community-service institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 6% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 50 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $2.9M in 2020 to $7.1M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
Ongoing programs provide essential services that meet basic needs like food shelter clothing and other supports. Lunch is served to the community monday-friday via a mobile food truck and three meals a day are provided to residents staying in the emergency shelter. The shelter includes 51 beds with separate areas for men and women and is trans-inclusive does not require sobriety and accepts well-behaved pets. A case planner assists shelter residents in their transition to long-term housing and other core needs like supporting them in finding medical care id and other resources. The c…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $7.1M | $6.9M | $4.2M | $587K | $1,650 | $4.4M |
| 2023 | $6.5M | $6.4M | $3.9M | $495K | $425 | $4.2M |
| 2022 | $6.4M | $11.9M | $3.8M | $584K | $1,585 | $4.1M |
| 2021 | $5.6M | $5.2M | $3.2M | $578K | $1,336 | $9.6M |
| 2020 | $2.9M | $3M | $2.2M | $321K | — | $9.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $4.2M from 63 charities:
- The 625 Powell Street Foundation$2.5M
- Vancouver Foundation$433K
- The United Church of Canada$256K
- Hockey Helps the Homeless/hockey Aide les Sans-Abri$100K
- Krogseth Foundation$100K
- Blue Sea Philanthropy Inc.$93K
- The Hieros Foundation$75K
- Pacific Spirit United Church$63K
- Gilmore Park United Church$53K
- Kaatza Foundation$50K
- The Connor Clark & Lunn Foundation$50K
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$50K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$46K
- Canadahelps Canadon$43K
- Canadahelps Canadon$43K
- The Catherine Donnelly Foundation$40K
- H W Siebens Charitable Foundation$40K
- Seedlings Foundation$25K
- The Charles Johnson Charitable Fund$22K
- H W Siebens Charitable Foundation$21K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$20K
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$19K
- Nanaimo Community Foundation$15K
- Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society$15K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$14K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9999 positions
- Permanent full-time positions50
- Total compensation, all staff$4.6M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Brian Thorpe (vice - chair); Elizabeth Kerklaan (director); Heather Clarke (chair); Jacob Black-Lock (director); Paul Mitchell-Banks (director); Scott Griffin (director); William Walkem (secretary); Lauren Telford (treasurer); Jeff Bay (director); Colin Phillips (director); Chris Wrightson (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from First United Church Community Ministry Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 826726135RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.