Pacific Community Resources Society
Publicly funded institution · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 107775785RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($10,466,767) as filed with the CRA.
Pacific Community Resources Society is a charitable organization based in Vancouver, 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 March 31, 2024, it reported $40.9M in revenue and $10.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 96% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 22 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $2.4M.
Compared with 538 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 100% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 333 permanent full-time positions.
In its own words
The society operates alternative schools alcohol and drug counseling and prevention programs needle exchange program youth centres employment programs training for youth education assistance programs pathways to education program chilliwack housing and primary care centre youth housing leadership and youth resilience programming.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $40.9M | $10.5M | $39.3M | — | — | $12.6M |
| 2023 | $35.2M | $35.5M | $33.5M | — | — | $12.2M |
| 2022 | $31.8M | $31.4M | $30.1M | — | — | $12.5M |
| 2021 | $31.2M | $30.1M | $29.4M | — | — | $12.1M |
| 2020 | $29.5M | $28.7M | $27.9M | — | — | $11.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $2.4M from 22 charities:
- Pathways to Education Canada/Passeport pour ma réussite Canada$2.2M
- Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society$47K
- Vancity Community Foundation$43K
- RBC Foundation$25K
- Central City Foundation$19K
- United Way British Columbia$15K
- A Way Home: Working Together to End Youth Homelessness$14K
- Canadahelps Canadon$8,425
- The Home Depot Canada Foundation$7,669
- The Home Depot Canada Foundation$6,664
- Vancouver Foundation$5,465
- Raising the Roof chez Toit$5,000
- R.R. Smith Memorial Fund Foundation$850
- Vancity Community Foundation$850
- Children's Aid Foundation of Canada—
- Children's Aid Foundation of Canada—
- Children's Aid Foundation of Canada—
- Children's Aid Foundation of Canada—
- Children's Aid Foundation of Canada—
- Children's Aid Foundation of Canada—
- Children's Aid Foundation of Canada—
- 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:
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9998 positions
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions333
- Total compensation, all staff$23.2M
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 Community Resources Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 107775785RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.