Raincity Housing and Support Society
Publicly funded institution · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 127115780RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($58,941,738) as filed with the CRA.
Raincity Housing and Support 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 $58.4M in revenue and $58.9M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 92% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 16 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $259K.
Compared with 427 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 36% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $160,000–199,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 194 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $35.9M in 2020 to $58.4M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
Raincity housing provides innovative specialized housing and support services for people living with mental illness addictions and other challenges. By designing programs based on research assessment evaluation and implementation of best practices raincity housing is leading the way in developing solutions to end homelessness.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $58.4M | $58.9M | $52.8M | $133K | — | $0 |
| 2023 | $52.3M | $53.7M | $48.7M | $151K | — | $0 |
| 2022 | $43.6M | $45.2M | $41M | $99K | — | $0 |
| 2021 | $40.6M | $41.4M | $37.6M | $108K | — | $0 |
| 2020 | $35.9M | $36.2M | $32.9M | $109K | — | $0 |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $259K from 16 charities:
- Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society$154K
- Hockey Helps the Homeless/hockey Aide les Sans-Abri$63K
- Vancouver Foundation$16K
- Canadahelps Canadon$10K
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$4,713
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$4,481
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$3,659
- BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust$982
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$500
- United Way of Greater Toronto$480
- British Columbia Schizophrenia Society (BCSS) Sunshine Coast Branch$300
- The Chaim Zbar Foundation$250
- Good Shepherd Lutheran Church of Coquitlam$200
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$1
- My Tribute Gift Foundation—
- Food Bank on Wheels Society—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9992 positions
- $120,000–159,9992 positions
- $80,000–119,9996 positions
- Permanent full-time positions194
- Total compensation, all staff$42M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Douglas Barton (director); Christine Little (chair); Lisa Gardner (director); Amy Gill (director); Kendra Milne (vice chair); Jackie Graham (director); Nitin Khare (treasurer).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Raincity Housing and Support Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 127115780RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.