Power to Be Adventure Therapy Society
Charitable organization · Victoria, British Columbia · BN 861269959RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($4,205,243) as filed with the CRA.
Power to Be Adventure Therapy Society is a charitable organization based in Victoria, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $4.4M in revenue and $4.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 21% from donations, 50% from other charities. In 2024, 40 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $2.5M.
Compared with 1,125 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 9% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 90% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $120,000–159,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 17 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
Adventure therapy programs in four key area: wilderness experiences adaptive recreation environmental stewardship and rehabilitation services.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.4M | $4.2M | $2.4M | $987K | — | $3M |
| 2023 | $4.4M | $4.6M | $2.6M | $1.1M | — | $2.8M |
| 2022 | $4.1M | $3.7M | $2.1M | $1.1M | — | $3M |
| 2021 | $4.2M | $3.6M | $2M | $898K | — | $2.6M |
| 2020 | $4.3M | $3.2M | $1.9M | $831K | — | $2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $2.5M from 40 charities:
- The Annual Foundation$1M
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$251K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$213K
- Canadahelps Canadon$174K
- Canadahelps Canadon$174K
- The Yellow Bus Foundation$125K
- North Family Foundation$75K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$68K
- R. Howard Webster Foundation$55K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$50K
- Ihnatowycz Family Foundation$50K
- Children's Health Foundation of Vancouver Island$50K
- Vancouver Foundation$38K
- The Victoria Foundation$31K
- The Blidner Family Foundation$25K
- BenefAction Foundation$20K
- RBC Foundation$10K
- The WB Family Foundation$10K
- The Connor Clark & Lunn Foundation$10K
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$10K
- Hylcan Foundation$7,500
- Petro-Canada CareMakers Foundation Fondation Proches Aimants Petro-Canada$7,500
- Big Wheel Community Foundation$5,500
- Youth and Philanthropy Initiative Canada/Initiative Canada Jeunesse et Philanthropie$5,000
- Urban Systems Foundation$5,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9992 positions
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- $40,000–79,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions17
- Total compensation, all staff$3M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Andrea Carey (board director); Paul Corns (board director); Navdeep Gill (vice chair); James Heth (board director); Adam McLean (board director); Lauren McNeil (treasurer); Mary Lou Newbold (board director); Rahul Ray (chair).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Power to Be Adventure Therapy Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 861269959RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.