Richmond Addiction Services Society
Publicly funded institution · Richmond, British Columbia · BN 130090830RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,321,311) as filed with the CRA.
Richmond Addiction Services Society is a charitable organization based in Richmond, 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 $1.4M in revenue and $1.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 90% from government, 6% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $165K.
Compared with 717 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 53% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $120,000–159,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 6 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
1. Community addiction prevention and wellness program: individual group and outreach counseling assessments and referrals for adults youth and families in schools and the wider community 2. Constructive alternative to teen suspension program: intervention for school age children violating school district substance use policy 3. Schools out program: to provide youth aged 6 to 12 with structured after-school programming that focused on physical activity and mental wellness 4. Foundry youth peer support program: to provide youth aged 12-24 with health and welfare resources services and…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.4M | $1.3M | $1.2M | — | — | $163K |
| 2023 | $1.2M | $1.2M | $1M | — | — | $129K |
| 2022 | $1.1M | $1.1M | $897K | — | — | $105K |
| 2021 | $1.5M | $1.5M | $1.4M | — | — | $76K |
| 2020 | $1.4M | $1.4M | $1.2M | $4,243 | $500 | $77K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $165K from 2 charities:
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
- $80,000–119,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions6
- Total compensation, all staff$1.1M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Yasmin Rahman (director); Ken Anderson (treasurer); Richika Selvakumar (secretary); Ray Yu-Jui Wang (director); Cheuk Tat Yan (director); Debbie Samsom (president); Sadaf Sediqi (vice president); Diana Leong (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Richmond Addiction Services Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 130090830RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.