Ribbon Community Society
Publicly funded institution · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 106689896RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,206,331) as filed with the CRA.
Ribbon Community Society is a charitable organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under core health care. 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 $3.2M in revenue and $3.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 10% from donations, 79% from government, 5% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 6 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $57K.
Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 1 permanent full-time position.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.6M in 2020 to $3.2M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
In march 2024 aids vancouver changed our name to ribbon community or ribbon for short. Throughout this change our programs and services continued to support and empower people living with hiv including the generation that built aids vancouver as well as people impacted by hiv stigma. Peer programs: peer support is available on an outreach basis as well as the rapid access addictions clinic. John ruedy clinic and positive health services in addition to the ribbon office. Peer support includes accompaniment to appointments peer groups and events and hiv prevention case managemnt:…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.2M | $3.2M | — | — | — | $711K |
| 2023 | $2.4M | $2.5M | — | — | — | $690K |
| 2022 | $2.6M | $2.3M | — | — | — | $777K |
| 2021 | $2.7M | $2.3M | $1.9M | $86K | — | $500K |
| 2020 | $1.6M | $1.8M | $1.4M | $23K | — | $48K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $57K from 6 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions1
- Total compensation, all staff$1.8M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Michael Hamata (director); Mostafa Bondkok (secretary); Michael Leclair (chair); Robert Godding (treasurer); Danielle Fiddick (vice chair); Sugandha Bajaj (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Ribbon Community Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 106689896RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.