Hopehill Living in Community Society
Publicly funded institution · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 130688864RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,390,724) as filed with the CRA.
Hopehill Living in Community Society is a charitable organization based in 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 December 31, 2024, it reported $6.2M in revenue and $2.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 55% from government, 5% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 5 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $53K.
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 43% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 12 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $2.1M in 2020 to $6.2M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
Providing affordable housing for seniors. Organizing and providing activities and pastoral care for seniors
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $6.2M | $2.4M | $2.1M | — | — | $16.3M |
| 2023 | $4.8M | $2.3M | $2.1M | — | — | $12.5M |
| 2022 | $2.2M | $2.2M | $2M | — | — | $10.1M |
| 2021 | $2.5M | $2M | $1.9M | — | — | $10.1M |
| 2020 | $2.1M | $973K | $1.8M | — | — | $9.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $53K from 5 charities:
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
- $80,000–119,9994 positions
- $40,000–79,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions12
- Total compensation, all staff$1.1M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Peter Anderson (director); Jack Borchert (president); Jeff Breuls (director); Lyle Harris (director); John Ogilvie (vice president); Lynda Palmer (sec/tres); Larry Schram (director); Doug Powell (director); Shirley Sarah Tan (director); Jeevitha Kandasmy (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Hopehill Living in Community Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 130688864RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.