Salal Sexual Violence Support Centre Society
Publicly funded institution · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 892504366RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,995,585) as filed with the CRA.
Salal Sexual Violence Support Centre 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 $2.9M in revenue and $3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 12% from donations, 78% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 19 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $240K.
Compared with 1,618 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 50% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (4 positions in that band). The charity reported 42 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.7M in 2020 to $2.9M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
Salal Sexual Violence Support Centre provides front line support services to survivors of sexualized violence who have a shared experiences of gender marginalization: cis and trans women Two-Spirit trans and/or non-binary people. Additionally we advocate for social and systemic change through education and advocacy
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.9M | $3M | $2.7M | — | — | $627K |
| 2023 | $2.6M | $2.9M | $2.6M | — | — | $689K |
| 2022 | $2.4M | $2.4M | $2.2M | — | — | $998K |
| 2021 | $2.1M | $1.8M | $1.6M | — | — | $949K |
| 2020 | $1.7M | $1.9M | $1.7M | $118K | — | $666K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $240K from 19 charities:
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$70K
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$46K
- Canadahelps Canadon$33K
- Canadahelps Canadon$33K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$14K
- Makeway Foundation$10K
- Centra Cares Foundation$10K
- Vancouver Foundation$9,314
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$3,785
- Canada Gives$2,000
- BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust$1,453
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$1,279
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$1,247
- Vancity Community Foundation$1,200
- Vancity Community Foundation$1,094
- Leon Judah Blackmore Foundation$1,000
- The Hermant Family Foundation$400
- Rogers Sugar LTD. Employees' Charity Trust$332
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$75
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9994 positions
- $40,000–79,9996 positions
- Permanent full-time positions42
- Total compensation, all staff$2.1M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Alla Shishkov (director at large); Lisa Eccles (member at large); Benedicta Bawo (director at large); Margery Pazdor (board chair); Barbara Findlay (director at large); Konken Michaela (director at large); Soni Thindal (vice chair).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Salal Sexual Violence Support Centre Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 892504366RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.