Roman Catholic Archbishop of Vancouver
Charitable organization · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 118849470RR0004 · Christianity · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($143,608,086) as filed with the CRA.
Roman Catholic Archbishop of Vancouver is a charitable organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under christianity. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $34.3M in revenue and $143.6M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 48% from donations, 11% from other charities. In 2024, 89 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $2.7M.
Compared with 158 religious charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 88% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 78% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 87 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 63 qualified donees totalling $13.6M in 2024, the largest being $9.5M to The Catholic Independent Schools of Vancouver Archdiocese. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $19M in 2020 to $34.3M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
1) The organization promotes the advancement of the Catholic religious worship instruction and ministry. 2) The organization co-ordinates religious education for parishes and schools. 3) The organization co-ordinates the evangelization programs for parishes. 4) The organization is involved in the governance and operations of certain charitable works for the poor the homeless for refugees and for the imprisoned. 5) The organization operates a vocations office for preparing candidates to the priesthood.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $34.3M | $143.6M | $129.4M | $319K | $13.5M | $135.4M |
| 2023 | $35M | $17.4M | $9.1M | $338K | $7.6M | $143.9M |
| 2022 | $64.1M | $9.2M | $7.7M | $429K | $5.8M | $153.3M |
| 2021 | $40.3M | $34.1M | $27.2M | $392K | $6.3M | $125.9M |
| 2020 | $19M | $32.4M | $22.9M | $353K | $8.9M | $104.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $13.6M to 63 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- The Catholic Independent Schools of Vancouver Archdiocese$9.5M
- Indigenous Reconciliation Fund$691K
- Organisation Catholique Canadienne pour le Développement et la Paix$683K
- Commissariat de Terre Sainte au Canada/commissariat of the Holy Land in Canada$585K
- Corpus Christi College Society$454K
- Concacan Inc.$271K
- The Society for the Propagation of the Faith for Canada English Sector$163K
- Catholic Missions in Canada$151K
- Little Flower Academy Foundation$125K
- Roman Catholic Archbishop of Vancouver$86K
- Chalice (Canada)$70K
- Catholic Pacific College Society$55K
- Advokate Life & Education Services Society$51K
- Corpus Christi College Society$50K
- The Catholic Health Association of British Columbia$45K
- FH Canada$43K
- Roman Catholic Archbishop of Vancouver$30K
- Southfraser Pregnancy Options Society$28K
- The Queen of Peace Monastery$25K
- CoSA Canada INC$25K
- Catholic Christian Outreach of Canada Inc$25K
- Alpha Ministries Canada$25K
- Catholic Episcopal Corporation of Whitehorse$25K
- Sentinel Youth Services Foundation$23K
- BC Familycare Foundation O/a Womancare$22K
Received $2.7M from 89 charities:
- Roman Catholic Archbishop of Vancouver$115K
- Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem Foundation (lieutenancy of Canada Vancouver)$100K
- Szocs Foundation$94K
- Roman Catholic Archbishop of Vancouver$93K
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As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9993 positions
- $120,000–159,9995 positions
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions87
- Total compensation, all staff$5.9M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
John Michael Miller (archbishop); Sean O'Brien (chief financial officer); Gregory Smith (vicar general); Joseph Thoai Le (chancellor); Jennifer Triste (controller).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Roman Catholic Archbishop of Vancouver’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118849470RR0004), or read how we compute the receipt.