Lions Gate Buddhist Priory
Charitable organization · Lytton, British Columbia · BN 119020865RR0001 · Other Religions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($78,192) as filed with the CRA.
Lions Gate Buddhist Priory is a charitable organization based in Lytton, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under other religions. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $104K in revenue and $78K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 77% from donations, 6% from other charities. In 2024, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $3,716.
Compared with 14,125 religious charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 49% of peers.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $65K in 2020 to $104K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
'we support a monastic with food clothing shelter & medicine; train teachers monks & lay ministers; provide meditation instruction counseling lectures home & hospital & school visits; perform weddings funerals memorial services children's naming ceremonies business and house blessings; publish a newsletter a website down-load-able articles books and mps audio talks. We serve meditation groups in vancouver victoria nanaimo lytton bc & edmonton ab; we offer week-long & weekend meditation retreats & spiritual counseling by email; online twice-weekly program of meditation ser…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $104K | $78K | $70K | — | — | $632K |
| 2023 | $51K | $60K | $58K | — | — | $378K |
| 2022 | $71K | $103K | $101K | — | — | $330K |
| 2021 | $126K | $51K | $26K | — | — | $518K |
| 2020 | $65K | $58K | $54K | — | — | $442K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $3,716 from 2 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Ronald Benson (director president prior. mo); Clayton Giles (director treasurer manastic); Valerie Allison (director asst. treasurer mon); Sharron Soo (director); Michele Feist (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Lions Gate Buddhist Priory’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119020865RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.