PHS Community Services Society
Publicly funded institution · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 891413791RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($76,648,676) as filed with the CRA.
PHS Community Services Society is a charitable organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. 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 $77.4M in revenue and $76.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 88% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 14 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $341K.
Compared with 427 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 41% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $300,000–349,999 range. The charity reported 639 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 13 names.
In its own words
Phs community services society provides housing healthcare and harm reduction for some of the most vulnerable and at risk individuals in vancouver and victoria. Our ongoing programs include: a low barrier credit union a community dental clinic a primary care clinic that includes mental health and addiction treatment services supervised injection site mobile needle van and outreach services. Additionally phs operates 30 housing and shelter programs with 1500 units in vancouver and victoria
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $77.4M | $76.6M | $69.4M | — | — | $6.2M |
| 2023 | $70.7M | $70.6M | $64.4M | — | — | $5.5M |
| 2022 | $66.1M | $65M | $59M | — | — | $5.2M |
| 2021 | $62.8M | $61M | $56M | — | — | $4.2M |
| 2020 | $51.7M | $51.2M | $46.3M | — | — | $2.4M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $341K from 14 charities:
- Vancouver Foundation$99K
- Canadahelps Canadon$75K
- Canadahelps Canadon$75K
- Al Roadburg Foundation$50K
- Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society$22K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$8,968
- Vancity Community Foundation$4,000
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$2,600
- The Andrew Mahon Foundation$2,500
- Vancity Community Foundation$1,094
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$1,088
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$486
- Vancity Community Foundation$200
- BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust$33
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $300,000–349,9991 position
- $200,000–249,9992 positions
- $160,000–199,9995 positions
- $120,000–159,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions639
- Total compensation, all staff$53.4M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Stephen Learey (hr committee chair); Adam Munnings (board chair); Ben Milne (director); Donna Baines (director); Bobbi Hoadley (governance committee chair); Perry Kendall (director); Aman Malhi (director); Varun Banthia (finance chair treasurer); Christine Singh (vice chair); Penny Gurstein (director); Geraldine Valle (director); Glen Clark (director); Diamond Isinger.
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from PHS Community Services Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 891413791RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.