Lookout Housing and Health Society
Publicly funded institution · New Westminster, British Columbia · BN 130695166RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($78,375,892) as filed with the CRA.
Lookout Housing and Health Society is a charitable organization based in New Westminster, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. 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 $80.3M in revenue and $78.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 84% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 26 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $3.2M.
Compared with 115 community-service institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 77% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 528 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $65K in 2024, the largest being $65K to Lookout Foundation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $44.5M in 2020 to $80.3M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
Lookout is a multi-service agency providing a broad array of social services to low-income and homeless persons including emergency shelter programs drop-in extreme weather response (ewr) shelters supportive housing outreach programs accommodation supplement programs addiction treatment health programs and community outreach. Ongoing health programs include hiv/hep c prevention surrey smoking ops; surrey peer support – dopers; community living bc programs at grosvenor residence and cedar valley complex care cowichan wellness and recovery centre 4 supportive recovery programs in su…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $80.3M | $78.4M | $74.5M | $12K | $62K | $14.7M |
| 2023 | $67.1M | $66.9M | $63.6M | $1,447 | $118K | $12.7M |
| 2022 | $57.6M | $57.1M | $53.9M | $1,681 | $115K | $12.6M |
| 2021 | $53.1M | $53M | $49.8M | — | $238K | $12M |
| 2020 | $44.5M | $43.6M | — | — | $109K | $11.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $65K to 1 qualified donee:
Received $3.2M from 26 charities:
- Lookout Foundation$1.9M
- Vancouver Foundation$511K
- Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society$436K
- Hockey Helps the Homeless/hockey Aide les Sans-Abri$100K
- United Way British Columbia$91K
- Vancity Community Foundation$50K
- H W Siebens Charitable Foundation$43K
- The Derick Brenninkmeyer Charitable Foundation$15K
- The Parish of ST John the Evangelist North Vancouver$15K
- Canadahelps Canadon$12K
- Salt Spring Island Foundation$7,500
- H W Siebens Charitable Foundation$5,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$4,543
- North Shore Unitarian Church$3,153
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$3,067
- Lohn Foundation$2,500
- West Vancouver Fire Fighters Charitable Society$2,000
- The Hamber Foundation$2,000
- BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust$1,749
- Parish of ST Mary's Kerrisdale$1,500
- The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act$1,500
- Cascade Gospel Chapel$920
- Christian Stewardship Services$500
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$402
- Anglican Parish of ST George$250
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
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions528
- Total compensation, all staff$54.1M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Charles Puchmayr (board president); Grant Smith (board vice president/treasurer); Daniel Steinberg (board director); Duncan Bees (board director); Caroline Ferris (board director); Sharon Prescott (board secretary); Teresa Blackstone (board director); Bennie Graydon (board director); Tim Harris (board director); Stacey Ferguson (board director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Lookout Housing and Health Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 130695166RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.