Hollyburn Community Services Society
Publicly funded institution · North Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 863785770RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-09-30. Split of total expenditures ($4,655,818) as filed with the CRA.
Hollyburn Community Services Society is a charitable organization based in North Vancouver, 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 September 30, 2024, it reported $4.2M in revenue and $4.7M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 77% from government, 14% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 21 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $578K.
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 70% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 84% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (6 positions in that band). The charity reported 33 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
North shore youth safe house: 6-bed shelter for homeless youth age 14 - 18 hollyburn hockey heroes: hockey program for at-risk youth on the north shore life success program: transition housing/support services for 6 youth 18 to 24 wired 4 success: employment program for youth age 15 - 30 victim support services: support for victims of domestic violence seniors at housing risk: adults 55+ homeless/ at risk of becoming homeless orwell house: a secondary transitional housing program for youth youth education navigator: for youth 15 to 30 to provide support to enroll in and graduate from post-seco…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.2M | $4.7M | $4.4M | $129K | — | $264K |
| 2023 | $4M | $4M | $3.8M | $88K | — | $4,434 |
| 2022 | $3.6M | $3.6M | $3.4M | $116K | — | $1,013 |
| 2021 | $3.9M | $3.9M | $3.4M | $110K | $300K | $2,752 |
| 2020 | $3.1M | $3.1M | $2.9M | $100K | — | $2,739 |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $578K from 21 charities:
- H W Siebens Charitable Foundation$135K
- H W Siebens Charitable Foundation$110K
- West Vancouver Community Foundation$110K
- RBC Foundation$40K
- Canadahelps Canadon$28K
- Canadahelps Canadon$28K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$25K
- Seedlings Foundation$25K
- TELUS Friendly Future Foundation$20K
- Bitelli Family Foundation$10K
- Ames Family Foundation$10K
- Djavad Mowafaghian Foundation$10K
- The Home Depot Canada Foundation$6,370
- The Home Depot Canada Foundation$5,425
- United Way of Greater Toronto$5,000
- Vancouver Foundation$2,700
- Fondation RONA$2,328
- ST. David's United Church$1,910
- North Shore Unitarian Church$1,742
- ST. Timothy's Church$400
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$97
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9996 positions
- $40,000–79,99915 positions
- $1–39,99912 positions
- Permanent full-time positions33
- Total compensation, all staff$2.3M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Alan Kwinter (director); Paul Tutsch (director); Michael Thorne (secretary); Lynn Green (director); Robert Tanaka (treasurer); Alexander Jason Wexler (director); Nancy Farran (chair); Deborah Baker (director); Kevin Evans (vice-chair); Heidi Mason (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Hollyburn Community Services Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 863785770RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.