PALS Adult Services Society
Publicly funded institution · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 701460917RR0001 · Supportive Health Care
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,446,069) as filed with the CRA.
PALS Adult Services Society is a charitable organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under supportive 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 $3.2M in revenue and $3.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 20% from donations, 58% from government, 16% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 14 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $533K.
Compared with 717 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 39% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 89% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 18 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $3 in 2020 to $3.2M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
The purposes of the society are: (a) to advance educational opportunities for adults with autism and neuro-developmental disorders by providing training programs that support employment functional communication social skills and social thinking adaptive life skills and community involvement. (b) to relieve conditions associated with developmental disabilities by providing training programs that support employment functional communication social skills and social thinking adaptive life skills and community involvement. (c) to relieve poverty of adults with autism and neuro-developmenta…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.2M | $3.4M | $3M | $9,799 | — | $486K |
| 2023 | $3M | $2.9M | $2.5M | $10K | — | $747K |
| 2022 | $2.1M | $1.9M | $1.6M | $14K | — | $585K |
| 2021 | $1.7M | $1.8M | $1.4M | $3,390 | — | $449K |
| 2020 | $3 | $1,274 | — | — | — | -$1,271 |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $533K from 14 charities:
- Vancouver Foundation$165K
- Pals Autism Society$127K
- United Way British Columbia$93K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$30K
- Aqueduct Foundation$25K
- Mary and Gordon Christopher Foundation$25K
- Unity for Autism$22K
- Petite Eleanor Foundation$15K
- Music Heals Charitable Foundation$12K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$8,000
- Gore Mutual Insurance Company Foundation$7,500
- The Iranian-Canadian Benevolent Foundation$2,000
- Childhood for Children Foundation$600
- Canadahelps Canadon$288
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- $1–39,9996 positions
- Permanent full-time positions18
- Total compensation, all staff$2.2M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Allison Annesley (director); Allison Kay Arai (director); Mackenzie Biggar (director); Rebecca Catley (director); Douglas Cochran (director); Allan Copping (director); Katy Harandi (director); Kelly Eileen Kerr (director treasurer); John Grant Skinner McCulloch (executive chairman); Sandra Akiko Tanaka (director); Karin Terado (director); Michael Lynn Thom (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from PALS Adult Services Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 701460917RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.