Lotus Light Charity Society
Charitable organization · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 141104893RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($528,378) as filed with the CRA.
Lotus Light Charity Society is a charitable organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $578K in revenue and $528K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 80% from donations. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $2,500.
Compared with 2,470 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 19% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $2,000 in 2024, the largest being $2,000 to The University of British Columbia. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $1.1M in 2020 to $578K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
Provide a place of worship and counselling for followers; hold buddhist ceremonies; support and provide buddhist teaching; publish buddhist books; run winter charity programs to provide sleeping bags clothing and food items to homeless people. Provide free esl classes provide scholarship to deserving students; donate funds to other charities; organize charitable fund raising drives; donate rice and other items to food bank.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $578K | $528K | $349K | — | $2,000 | $5.5M |
| 2023 | $583K | $647K | $479K | — | $2,000 | $5.5M |
| 2022 | $865K | $744K | $591K | — | $2,000 | $5.6M |
| 2021 | $928K | $832K | $727K | — | $2,000 | $5.4M |
| 2020 | $1.1M | $986K | $875K | — | $2,000 | $5.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $2,000 to 1 qualified donee:
Received $2,500 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Total compensation, all staff$50K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
May Jean Pai (president); Lin Qin (director); Floyd Wong (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Lotus Light Charity Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 141104893RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.