Rainbow Refugee Society
Charitable organization · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 833497209RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,859,232) as filed with the CRA.
Rainbow Refugee Society is a charitable organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.6M in revenue and $1.9M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 35% from donations, 34% from government, 25% from other charities. In 2024, 22 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $908K.
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 12% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 94% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 15 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $696K in 2020 to $1.6M in 2024.
In its own words
The purpose of the society is to promote safe equitable migration and communities of belonging for people fleeing persecution based on their sexual orientation gender identity gender expression or hiv status. This is done by providing support information and system navigation to refugees and refugee claimants seeking refugee status in canada.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.6M | $1.9M | $1.2M | $1,500 | — | $921K |
| 2023 | $2.1M | $2.2M | $1.4M | $28K | — | $1.2M |
| 2022 | $1.6M | $1.8M | $1.5M | $18K | — | $1.3M |
| 2021 | $685K | $698K | — | — | — | $1.5M |
| 2020 | $696K | $707K | — | — | — | $1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $908K from 22 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$275K
- Canadahelps Canadon$275K
- Vancouver Foundation$125K
- The Sonor Foundation$80K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$37K
- Brechin United Church$27K
- ST. Andrew's Wesley United Church$25K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$17K
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$15K
- The Trustee Board of the Presbyterian Church in Canada$7,500
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$7,224
- Rainbow Foundation of Hope$6,600
- BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust$3,151
- Aqueduct Foundation$2,000
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$1,107
- Trinity-Grace United Church$1,000
- Abbey of the Long Cedar Canoe Society$1,000
- Vancity Community Foundation$1,000
- Centra Cares Foundation$1,000
- The Victoria Foundation$500
- Vancity Community Foundation$250
- GivingForce Foundation Canada$150
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9998 positions
- Permanent full-time positions15
- Total compensation, all staff$1M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Rainbow Refugee Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 833497209RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.