Parkinson Wellness Projects
Charitable organization · Victoria, British Columbia · BN 802395236RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($578,787) as filed with the CRA.
Parkinson Wellness Projects is a charitable organization based in Victoria, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under core health care. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $571K in revenue and $579K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 54% from donations, 18% from government, 7% from other charities. In 2024, 11 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $76K.
Compared with 1,130 health charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 34% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 1 permanent full-time position.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
1. Provide information counselling support and referral services to persons who have parkinson’s disease and their caregivers to assist them to understand and cope with the effects of the disease. 2. Promote the role of exercise in slowing down the progression of parkinson’s disease. 3. Provide community-based parkinson’s specific exercise programs. 4. Offer the society’s services and programs at its centre in greater victoria and other locations. 5. Provide opportunities for persons with parkinson’s disease to engage in social interaction and be empowered to self-manage their dis…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $571K | $579K | $413K | $68K | — | $983K |
| 2023 | $415K | $474K | $362K | $45K | — | $991K |
| 2022 | $585K | $440K | $317K | $48K | — | $1M |
| 2021 | $683K | $439K | — | — | — | $904K |
| 2020 | $654K | $277K | — | — | $20K | $510K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $76K from 11 charities:
- The Victoria Foundation$40K
- Vancouver Foundation$17K
- Canadahelps Canadon$4,809
- BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust$3,644
- Canada Gives$3,000
- The Hamber Foundation$2,500
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$2,500
- Aqueduct Foundation$1,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$461
- The Sisters of Saint Ann$200
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$50
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
- Permanent full-time positions1
- Total compensation, all staff$236K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jillian Carson (honorary director); John Heraghty (treasurer); Don Manning (chair); Melinda Minkley (secretary); Terry Gorsuch (director); Andy Robinson (vice chair); Carole James (director); Ken Ryan-Lloyd (director); Brian Skillen (director); Lia Threlfall (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Parkinson Wellness Projects’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 802395236RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.