Greater Victoria Volunteer Society
Publicly funded institution · Victoria, British Columbia · BN 118946987RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($887,416) as filed with the CRA.
Greater Victoria Volunteer Society is a charitable organization based in Victoria, 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 $893K in revenue and $887K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 62% from government, 6% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 4 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $90K.
Compared with 1,147 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 positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (5 positions in that band). The charity reported 5 permanent full-time positions.
In its own words
Mission is to inspire everyone to volunteer. Core service areas are recruitment and referral of volunteers promotion and recognition of volunteerism building capacity for the local non-profit sector through training information and resources and providing leadership to the sector in all areas of non-profit and volunteer management.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $893K | $887K | $299K | — | — | $180K |
| 2023 | $771K | $770K | $324K | — | — | $175K |
| 2022 | $768K | $769K | $689K | — | — | $166K |
| 2021 | $906K | $843K | $683K | — | — | $175K |
| 2020 | $886K | $885K | $710K | $19 | — | $111K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $90K from 4 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions5
- Total compensation, all staff$269K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Greater Victoria Volunteer Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118946987RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.