Options Community Services Society
Publicly funded institution · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 811786227RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($63,043,806) as filed with the CRA.
Options Community Services Society 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 $67.6M in revenue and $63M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 75% from government, 12% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 18 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $286K.
Compared with 427 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 36% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 76% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $200,000–249,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 389 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $795K in 2024, the largest being $795K to Habitat Housing Society. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $41.7M in 2020 to $67.6M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 14 names.
In its own words
Options community services offers programs in surrey delta cloverdale white rock and langley. The society's fraser health crisis line serves the entire fraser health region from tri-cites to boston bar. Options provides programs in many areas including counselling employment shelter and housing support transition houses for women fleeing abuse immigrant settlement domestic violence services volunteer opportunities services for children with special needs family intervention programs early childhood and parenting mental health and supported housing pregnancy support and youth and …
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $67.6M | $63M | $55.6M | $179K | $795K | $20.8M |
| 2023 | $57.9M | $54.4M | $47.8M | $304K | — | $18.2M |
| 2022 | $52.6M | $51.1M | $45.5M | $298K | — | $16.2M |
| 2021 | $50.3M | $47.5M | $42.1M | $191K | — | $16.5M |
| 2020 | $41.7M | $40M | $35.2M | $62K | — | $14.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $795K to 1 qualified donee:
Received $286K from 18 charities:
- United Way British Columbia$99K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$68K
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$41K
- Fraser Valley REALTORS Charitable Foundation$20K
- Global Change for Children Society$11K
- Sutherland Foundation Inc$10K
- Ocean Park Foundation$10K
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$10K
- The Western Communities Foundation$5,000
- H W Siebens Charitable Foundation$5,000
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$2,499
- Aqueduct Foundation$1,000
- Vancouver Foundation$1,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$997
- Canadahelps Canadon$639
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$500
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$250
- Surrey Fire Fighters Charitable Society—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $200,000–249,9992 positions
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions389
- Total compensation, all staff$36.7M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Tim Beachy (director); Amanda Bratch (director); Craig East (director); Sandra Hentzen (director); Michael Kendler (director); Amardeep Khosa (director); Anoop Khosla (director); Laura Lattanzio (director); Kamaljit Lehal (co-chair); Rob Malli (director); Michelle Mann (secretary); Louella Mathias (director); Jeff Scott (co-chair); Devinder Sekhon (treasurer).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Options Community Services Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 811786227RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.