Greater Vancouver Youth for Christ
Charitable organization · Surrey, British Columbia · BN 107449902RR0001 · Support of Religion · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($5,981,640) as filed with the CRA.
Greater Vancouver Youth for Christ is a charitable organization based in Surrey, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under support of religion. In its fiscal year ending August 31, 2024, it reported $5.3M in revenue and $6M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 67% from donations, 24% from other charities. In 2024, 98 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.2M.
Compared with 2,238 religious charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 50% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 57 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 6 qualified donees totalling $31K in 2024, the largest being $27K to Association of Central Alberta Youth for Christ. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
Youth work with marginalized young people to provide camps coaching mentoring youth programs bible studies counselling outdoor recreation support teen mothers & teen fathers drop in centers discipleship homeless and street youth international speakers international partnership art programs training spiritual guidance and direction
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $5.3M | $6M | $5.3M | $99K | $55K | $3.6M |
| 2023 | $5.1M | $5.9M | $5.2M | $114K | $69K | $4.3M |
| 2022 | $5.5M | $5.5M | $4.6M | $119K | $194K | $5.1M |
| 2021 | $5.1M | $4.8M | — | $54K | $18K | $4.9M |
| 2020 | $5.6M | $4.9M | $4.8M | $44K | — | $4.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $31K to 6 qualified donees:
Received $1.2M from 98 charities:
- The Lightheart Foundation$230K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$101K
- The Foundation Office.ca$60K
- The Great Big Red Barn Foundation$40K
- Munday-Maxwell & Gaylene-Association$40K
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$37K
- Coram Deo Foundation$36K
- Abundance Canada$36K
- Youth for Christ/canada$33K
- Fraser Lands Church of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Canada$30K
- La-Mar Foundation$26K
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$25K
- ATB Investor Services Foundation$25K
- The Oikodome Foundation$25K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$25K
- Reed Charitable Foundation$24K
- Canadahelps Canadon$23K
- Canadahelps Canadon$23K
- The Campus Church$18K
- Celebrate Foundation$16K
- Diaconal Ministries Canada$15K
- Thiessen Dedicated Trust$15K
- Fraser Valley REALTORS Charitable Foundation$14K
- Willingdon Church$13K
- Johnston Heights Evangelical Free Church$13K
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 positions57
- Total compensation, all staff$3.7M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Iris Kalbfleisch (member at large); Geoff Reed (treasurer); Brinsley Saleken (vice chair); Tyler Schacter (chair); Tricia Stobbe (secretary); Mark Koop (ex-officio).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Greater Vancouver Youth for Christ’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 107449902RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.