Seva Canada Society
Charitable organization · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 130724941RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($2,638,158) as filed with the CRA.
Seva Canada Society is a charitable organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under core health care. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $3M in revenue and $2.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 77% from donations, 13% from other charities. In 2024, 29 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $880K.
Compared with 453 health charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 23% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 7 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.4M in 2020 to $3M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
1. Sight restoration and blindness prevention programs in india nepal eastern africa cambodia egypt francophone west africa and tibetan areas of china 2. Collaborate and assist in the development of partner clinics hospitals and institutions to provide universal access to eye care services in designated countries 3. Fund and promote research internationally and in canada to ensure quality surgical outcomes and to reduce service barriers to all marginalized people 4. Fund initiatives to integrate eye care with public health institutes 5. Promote and fund training and development o…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3M | $2.6M | $1.6M | $347K | — | $1.8M |
| 2023 | $2.2M | $2.2M | $1.3M | $315K | — | $1.4M |
| 2022 | $2M | $1.6M | $887K | $289K | — | $1.3M |
| 2021 | $2.1M | $1.6M | $963K | $259K | — | $1M |
| 2020 | $1.4M | $1.2M | $843K | $231K | — | $527K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $880K from 29 charities:
- Honey & Barry Sherman Legacy Foundation$400K
- The Walker Lynch Foundation$103K
- Canadahelps Canadon$71K
- Canadahelps Canadon$71K
- Vancouver Foundation$67K
- The Foundation Office.ca$30K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$23K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$19K
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$19K
- Ewald Family Foundation$15K
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$11K
- GiftPact Foundation Inc.$10K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$5,753
- Abundance Canada$5,000
- SpencerCreo Foundation$5,000
- Open Sky$5,000
- At the Kitchen Table Foundation$5,000
- BenefAction Foundation$3,179
- Fondation Philantra Philantra Foundation$3,000
- The Winnipeg Foundation$3,000
- Toronto Foundation$1,500
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,488
- Vancity Community Foundation$1,386
- The Peel District School Board$1,163
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$959
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $1–39,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions7
- Total compensation, all staff$484K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Paul Courtright (member); Jill Guthrie (co-chair of board); Glen Leader (treasurer); Marty Spencer (co-chair of board); Kanya Adam (member); David Fine (member); Brigid Cakouros (member); Sanil Joseph (member); Annapurna Chavali (member); Harinder Dhillon (member); Michael Rapps (member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Seva Canada Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 130724941RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.