Pivot Legal Society
Public foundation · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 894510502RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,141,764) as filed with the CRA.
Pivot Legal Society is a public foundation based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.1M in revenue and $1.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 11% from donations, 25% from government, 6% from other charities. In 2024, 16 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $319K.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 1% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 94% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 10 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
Programs in service of improving the lives people who are homeless sex workers people eho use drugs people who experience systemic criminalization affected by poverty and social exclusion by develop solution to complex human rights issues through advocacy litigation community research and public legal education. Pivot’s 5 programs: 1. Housing and homelessness: the overall objective of our housing program is to end the criminalization of and discrimination against unhoused and inadequately housed people by challenging laws and practices that violate human rights and constitutional law.…
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 | $77K | $203K | $0 | $0 |
| 2023 | $1.1M | $1.2M | $883K | $199K | — | $922K |
| 2022 | $1.1M | $1.1M | $713K | $146K | — | $370K |
| 2021 | $979K | $1.1M | $791K | $113K | — | $436K |
| 2020 | $1.1M | $1.2M | $844K | $121K | — | $535K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $319K from 16 charities:
- The Maytree Foundation$160K
- North Family Foundation$75K
- Canadahelps Canadon$23K
- Canadahelps Canadon$23K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$13K
- Abundance Canada$8,000
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$6,634
- Vancouver Foundation$5,000
- The Andrew Mahon Foundation$2,500
- The Illahie Foundation$2,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$671
- Vancity Community Foundation$500
- Vancity Community Foundation$350
- BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust$304
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$50
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$26
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
- $40,000–79,9999 positions
- Permanent full-time positions10
- Total compensation, all staff$843K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Kyle Thompson (chair); Stephanie Sweetnam (director); Elise Dolinsky (director); Brandee Lee McConnell (director); Thea Sheridan-Jonah (treasurer).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Pivot Legal Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 894510502RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.