Island Crisis Care Society
Publicly funded institution · Nanaimo, British Columbia · BN 137077111RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($10,510,886) as filed with the CRA.
Island Crisis Care Society 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 $10.5M in revenue and $10.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 86% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 17 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $521K.
Compared with 427 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 88% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 67 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $5.6M in 2020 to $10.5M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
The society provides emergency shelter food and referrals for counseling and other services at multiple facilities in the mid-vancouver island region. Supportive and transitional housing: samaritan place newcastle place orca place and mary's place stabilization and supportive recovery beds: crescent house safeharbour house the bridge & hirst house project rise: a pre-employment program aimed at reintegrating homeless people into independence and community life.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $10.5M | $10.5M | $10.3M | $20K | — | $1.1M |
| 2023 | $8.9M | $8.7M | — | — | — | $3.3M |
| 2022 | $8M | $7.9M | $7.3M | $31K | — | $3.1M |
| 2021 | $7.2M | $6.9M | $6.4M | $25K | — | $2.8M |
| 2020 | $5.6M | $5.4M | $4.8M | $35K | — | $1.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $521K from 17 charities:
- Blue Sea Philanthropy Inc.$197K
- United Way British Columbia$138K
- Loaves and Fishes Community Food Bank Society$87K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$68K
- Canadahelps Canadon$13K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$4,025
- The Calgary Foundation$3,385
- The Ardea Foundation$2,500
- ST. Columba Presbyterian Church$2,043
- Abundance Canada$1,750
- Nanaimo Christian School (1988) Society$1,513
- Sharing Hope Foundation$1,000
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$833
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$600
- BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust$346
- Hope Lutheran Church Nanaimo British Columbia$330
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$187
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
- $80,000–119,9997 positions
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions67
- Total compensation, all staff$8.4M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2023)
Jeremy Bellsmith (director); Ron Goerz (vice chairperson); Larissa Juren (director); Susanne Lee (chairperson); William Norris (director); Thomas Semper (secretary); Richard Sevenhuysen (treasurer).
As listed on its 2023 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Island Crisis Care Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 137077111RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.