Pacific Assistance Dogs Society
Charitable organization · Burnaby, British Columbia · BN 892252347RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-02-28. Split of total expenditures ($3,243,937) as filed with the CRA.
Pacific Assistance Dogs Society is a charitable organization based in Burnaby, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending February 28, 2024, it reported $2.6M in revenue and $3.2M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 51% from donations, 9% from government. In 2024, 39 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.4M.
Compared with 1,125 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 27% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (4 positions in that band). The charity reported 25 permanent full-time positions.
In its own words
The pacific assistance dogs society's (pads) mission is to breed raise train and place assistance dogs for persons with a physical disability or who are deaf or hard-of-hearing and to support these client/dog teams for the working life of the assistance dog. Pads also places canine assisted intervention (cai) dogs in facilities such as hospitals care homes schools hospices and police victim services to help assist with goal-directed interventions. Cai dogs support our community at large working with professional handlers to improvement physical social emotional and/or co…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.6M | $3.2M | $2.5M | $240K | — | $3M |
| 2023 | $2.9M | $2.8M | $2.1M | $216K | — | $3.7M |
| 2022 | $3.1M | $2.4M | $1.8M | $224K | — | $0 |
| 2021 | $3.1M | $2.1M | $1.6M | $202K | — | $0 |
| 2020 | $2.1M | $2.5M | $1.9M | $233K | — | $2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $1.4M from 39 charities:
- Willow Park Charity Golf Classic Foundation$574K
- Canadahelps Canadon$102K
- Canadahelps Canadon$102K
- British Columbia/yukon Command of the Royal Canadian Legion Foundation$80K
- Aqueduct Foundation$75K
- Dogtopia Foundation Canada$52K
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$41K
- Y.P. Heung Foundation$40K
- Commonage Legacy Foundation$40K
- Vancouver Foundation$33K
- Doane Grant Thornton Foundation$30K
- Norgaard Foundation$30K
- The Calgary Foundation$26K
- True Patriot Love Foundation$25K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$20K
- The Rix Family Foundation$20K
- Hunter Family Foundation$15K
- TELUS Friendly Future Foundation$15K
- CKNW Kids' Fund$15K
- Openroad Foundation$15K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$14K
- BenefAction Foundation$13K
- Abundance Canada$11K
- Makeway Foundation$10K
- Spruce Meadows Leg Up Foundation$8,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9994 positions
- $40,000–79,9996 positions
- Permanent full-time positions25
- Total compensation, all staff$1.9M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Pacific Assistance Dogs Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 892252347RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.