Haven Society: Promoting the Safety of Women Children Youth and Families
Publicly funded institution · Nanaimo, British Columbia · BN 119261105RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,411,523) as filed with the CRA.
Haven Society: Promoting the Safety of Women Children Youth and Families is a charitable organization based in Nanaimo, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. 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 $3M in revenue and $3.4M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 8% from donations, 82% from government, 7% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 17 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $168K.
Compared with 1,618 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 24% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 78% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (10 positions in that band). The charity reported 20 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
Community victim services diversity and inclusion domestic violence unit drop in men choose respect outreach prevention education advocacy counselling and empowerment safe house stopping the violence transition house diversity and inclusion
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3M | $3.4M | $2.8M | $11K | — | $1.7M |
| 2023 | $3.2M | $3.2M | $2.8M | $19K | — | $2.1M |
| 2022 | $3.1M | $2.7M | $2.2M | $12K | — | $2.3M |
| 2021 | $3.4M | $2.5M | $2M | $14K | — | $1.9M |
| 2020 | $2.8M | $2.5M | $2.1M | $18K | — | $908K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $168K from 17 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$64K
- Canadahelps Canadon$64K
- Nanaimo Community Foundation$10K
- Shoppers Foundation for Women's Health$8,670
- BenefAction Foundation$5,000
- The Pera Giving Foundation$2,529
- The Ardea Foundation$2,500
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$2,396
- BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust$2,140
- Loaves and Fishes Community Food Bank Society$2,064
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,057
- Anglican Synod of the Diocese of British Columbia$1,000
- United Way British Columbia$984
- The Calgary Foundation$604
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$261
- Vancouver Foundation$215
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$186
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,99910 positions
- Permanent full-time positions20
- Total compensation, all staff$2.5M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Lynda Brosko (member at large); Carol-Ann Borody-Siemens (chair); Yi-Chen (jane) Lumb (treasurer); Michelle Gagnon (secretary); Anne Crossfield (member at large); Sonja Haigh (member at large).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Haven Society: Promoting the Safety of Women Children Youth and Families’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119261105RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.