Providing Advocacy Counselling & Education Society
Publicly funded institution · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 898116462RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,047,979) as filed with the CRA.
Providing Advocacy Counselling & Education 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 $1.2M in revenue and $1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 82% from government, 12% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 6 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $146K.
Compared with 1,618 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 30% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (10 positions in that band). The charity reported 12 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $131K in 2020 to $1.2M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Education (educational workshop for sex workers and people who provide access to sex workers) - support services (one-on-one support work one-on-one and group counselling) - gender self-determination program (gsdp) (support services for trans and non-binary sex workers) - peer health navigation - weekly social and food groups for trans and indigenous sex workers - harm reduction window (provision of harm reduction supplies) - swac (sex work advisory committee and bipoc sex workers advisory committee
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.2M | $1M | $885K | — | — | $257K |
| 2023 | $850K | $894K | $711K | — | — | $141K |
| 2022 | $787K | $738K | $629K | — | — | $0 |
| 2021 | $869K | $840K | $725K | — | — | $337K |
| 2020 | $131K | $161K | $144K | — | — | $334K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $146K from 6 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,99910 positions
- Permanent full-time positions12
- Total compensation, all staff$815K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Hope Alicia (board member); Joyce Arthur (board co-chair); Alison Barnett (board member); Laura Burkholder (board co-chair); Caro Garofalo (board treasurer); Lozen Osecap (board member); Sam Patterson (board member); Michele ST Germaine (board member); Claire Stewart-Kanigan (board member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Providing Advocacy Counselling & Education Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 898116462RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.