Nicola Valley Community Human Services Association
Publicly funded institution · Merritt, British Columbia · BN 897228888RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($371,805) as filed with the CRA.
Nicola Valley Community Human Services Association is a charitable organization based in Merritt, 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 $423K in revenue and $372K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 84% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $72K.
Compared with 1,890 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 0% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 100% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 2 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $248K in 2020 to $423K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
Nicola Valley Community Services Association provides confidential personal and family counselling services. As an organization the association seeks to help address those family and relationship issues which result in personal harm. We complete the above through government funded programs like Stoping the Violence and Peace programs along with referrals from Ministry of Children and Family Development. We also support our local college Nicola Valley Institute of technology and continue to offer free services to any local Male seeking counselling through our Men's Mental Health Program that …
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $423K | $372K | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| 2023 | $371K | $348K | $0 | $0 | $0 | $136K |
| 2022 | $312K | $299K | $0 | $0 | $0 | $109K |
| 2021 | $294K | $276K | $252K | — | — | $96K |
| 2020 | $248K | $233K | $208K | — | — | $78K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $72K from 2 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions2
- Total compensation, all staff$284K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Sheri Bishop (exectutove director / signer); Hailey Agar (signer); Rae Porterfield (president); Jennifer Dustin (secretary); Cindy Larson (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Nicola Valley Community Human Services Association’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 897228888RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.