Kiwassa Neighbourhood Services Association
Publicly funded institution · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 107573479RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($6,509,756) as filed with the CRA.
Kiwassa Neighbourhood Services Association 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 March 31, 2024, it reported $6.4M in revenue and $6.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 75% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 14 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $602K.
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 22% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 57 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
Adult children youth seniors family childcare immigrant settlement employment food community programs
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $6.4M | $6.5M | $5.3M | — | — | — |
| 2023 | — | $6.2M | $5M | — | — | $2.9M |
| 2022 | $5.8M | $5.5M | $4.6M | — | — | $2.7M |
| 2021 | $6.1M | $5.2M | $4.4M | — | — | $2.5M |
| 2020 | $5.2M | $4.6M | $3.9M | — | — | $1.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $602K from 14 charities:
- United Way British Columbia$365K
- The Charity Tree$56K
- Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society$43K
- Bosa Properties Charitable Foundation$35K
- Right To Food$30K
- Vancouver Sun Children's Fund Society$15K
- Click - Contributing to Lives of Inner City Kids Society$14K
- Canadahelps Canadon$13K
- Vancouver Foundation$10K
- Right To Food$10K
- Soong Ching Ling Children's Foundation of Canada$10K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$782
- BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust$300
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$213
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,99910 positions
- Permanent full-time positions57
- Total compensation, all staff$4.9M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Janey Lew (vice-president); Lule Abbay (secretary); Carla Oberth (director); Alexandra Skinner (director); Michael Roy (treasurer); Elfred Matining (director); Chantal Parisean (director); Lisa Zhu (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Kiwassa Neighbourhood Services Association’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 107573479RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.