Pacific Animal Therapy Society
Publicly funded institution · Victoria, British Columbia · BN 889160974RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-04-30. Split of total expenditures ($52,650) as filed with the CRA.
Pacific Animal Therapy Society is a charitable organization based in Victoria, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under core health care. 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 April 30, 2024, it reported $97K in revenue and $53K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 9% from donations, 61% from government, 26% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 3 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $3,559.
Compared with 213 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 74% of peers. None of its ten highest-paid positions cleared $40,000. The charity reported 1 permanent full-time position.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $11K in 2020 to $97K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
The pacific animal therapy society (pats) is a volunteer-driven pet therapy organization that has served vancouver island for over 30 years to bring joy to people of all ages and backgrounds through visits to health care facilities care home retirement communities school universities and private residences. For example pats volunteers and their dogs help young students improve their reading skills through the paws and tales literacy program which is offered in schools and libraries. Pats also partners with local high school and post-secondary institutions to provide well-attended 'de-stre…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $97K | $53K | $52K | — | — | $50K |
| 2023 | $35K | — | — | — | — | $6,258 |
| 2022 | $25K | $16K | — | — | — | $24K |
| 2021 | $4,456 | $5,544 | — | — | — | $16K |
| 2020 | $11K | $14K | $4,515 | — | — | $17K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $3,559 from 3 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions1
- Total compensation, all staff$39K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Lucinda Brown (program director); Sandra Catherine Gendall (acting president); Lydia Baran (treasurer); Kimberley Batalla (director); Picharn Pop Kanjanakantorn (it director); Fran Pauze (director); Jane Styles (secretary).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Pacific Animal Therapy Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 889160974RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.