Pacific Coast University for Workplace Health Sciences
Publicly funded institution · Port Alberni, British Columbia · BN 849059191RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,594,924) as filed with the CRA.
Pacific Coast University for Workplace Health Sciences is a charitable organization based in Port Alberni, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under teaching institutions. 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 August 31, 2024, it reported $2.2M in revenue and $1.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 30% from government.
Compared with 1,247 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 71% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 9 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.1M in 2020 to $2.2M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 15 names.
In its own words
Statutory degree granting education and degree granting eduation and research institution for the special purpose of creating and disseminating new knowledge including applied research in the field of return to work and disability management workplace safety health promotion comprehensive rehabilitation and disability leadership studies.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.2M | $1.6M | $1.5M | — | — | -$630K |
| 2023 | $2.4M | $1.5M | $1.4M | — | — | -$1.2M |
| 2022 | $1.1M | $1.2M | $1.2M | — | — | -$2.1M |
| 2021 | $1.1M | $1M | $954K | — | — | -$2M |
| 2020 | $1.1M | $1.1M | $1M | — | — | -$2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- $1–39,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions9
- Total compensation, all staff$485K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Lance Blanco (member); Joachim Breur (member); Mike Carleton (member); Gary Doer (member); Mark Hancock (member); Ken Neumann (co-chair); Shanna Ramm (member); Sari Sairanen (member); Daphne Taras (member); Dean Winsor (co-chair); Wayne Wouters (member); Rod Cook (member); Wolfgang Zimmerman (member); Lorraine Evans (member); Kara Arnold (member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Pacific Coast University for Workplace Health Sciences’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 849059191RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.