Pacific Training Centre for the Blind Society
Publicly funded institution · Victoria, British Columbia · BN 846673085RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($13,170) as filed with the CRA.
Pacific Training Centre for the Blind 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 August 31, 2024, it reported $25K in revenue and $13K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 81% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 4 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $48K.
Compared with 213 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 21% of peers.
Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $154K in 2020 to $25K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
Blind people in charge program is the society's signature program which has been running since the centre's inception in 2013. Blind people in charge is the only program of its kind in western canada that offers regular intensive rehabilitation to people who are blind or are losing their vision; it is also the only program that uses an empowering problem solving model of instruction where blind people are teachers planners directors and administrators. The program teaches blind people skills such as braille and tactile skills keyboarding and adaptive technology how to travel safely and …
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $25K | $13K | $8,279 | — | — | $50K |
| 2023 | $78K | $99K | $37K | $4,679 | — | $202K |
| 2022 | $277K | $238K | $147K | $2,759 | — | $223K |
| 2021 | $272K | $167K | $67K | $16K | — | $184K |
| 2020 | $154K | $122K | $102K | — | — | $54K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $48K from 4 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Total compensation, all staff$123K
Schedule 3 of its 2022 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Shane Baker (president); Kyla Berry (vice president); Janet Erikson (secretary); Miles Motture (treasurer); Victor Marques (director); John (rowen) Yates (director); Marie Tullett (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Pacific Training Centre for the Blind Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 846673085RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.