People's Law School: the Public Legal Education Society
Publicly funded institution · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 887225795RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,101,714) as filed with the CRA.
People's Law School: the Public Legal Education Society is a charitable organization based in Vancouver, 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 March 31, 2024, it reported $1.1M in revenue and $1.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 27% from government. In 2024, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $820.
Compared with 1,247 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 35% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 2 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
People's law school publishes and distributes booklets in print and digital formats; we maintain two websites with legal information and rescources; we develop and present for the public free webinars on law-related topics; we provide an email q+a on law related topics; we maintain 'beagle' a chatbot to help pepople connect their questions to information available on our website.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.1M | $1.1M | $933K | — | — | $106K |
| 2023 | $906K | $902K | $614K | — | — | $102K |
| 2022 | $963K | $957K | $819K | — | — | $98K |
| 2021 | $1.3M | $1.2M | $1.1M | — | — | $93K |
| 2020 | $1.2M | $1.2M | $1M | — | — | $13K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $820 from 2 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions2
- Total compensation, all staff$278K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Bernard Achampong (director); Alisha Dagenais (director); Hassan El Masri (chair); Robert Hudson (treasurer); Cindy Switzer (secretary); Dean Tate (vice-chair); Mara Tessier (director); Sherry Maclennan (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from People's Law School: the Public Legal Education Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 887225795RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.