Sfu Childcare Society
Publicly funded institution · Burnaby, British Columbia · BN 107971988RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($7,160,514) as filed with the CRA.
Sfu Childcare Society is a charitable organization based in Burnaby, 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 $7.3M in revenue and $7.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 78% from government, 5% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2022, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $249.
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 (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 114 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $4.2M in 2020 to $7.3M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 17 names.
In its own words
The society's purpose is to establish maintain and promote quality childcare programs which seek to meet the individual needs of children and their families. The society operates 19 childcare programs at the burnaby mountain campus of simon fraser university and at its sapperton site.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $7.3M | $7.2M | $6.4M | — | — | $2.8M |
| 2023 | $6.2M | $6M | $5.4M | — | — | $2.6M |
| 2022 | $5M | $4.8M | $4.1M | — | — | $2.5M |
| 2021 | $4.1M | $3.9M | $3.4M | — | — | $2.2M |
| 2020 | $4.2M | $3.9M | $3.6M | $4,871 | — | $2.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2022
Received $249 from 2 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,99911 positions
- Permanent full-time positions114
- Total compensation, all staff$6.2M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2023)
Siu-Fai Wilson Kwan (treasurer); Sara Khosravi (member at large); Deborah Cushing (chair); Seungjae Jo (member at large); Christina Marie Evans (ex officio); Caitlin O'Reilly (member at large); Rachel Day (ex officio); Anna Hey Ji Jun (member at large); Kayleigh Pearson (ex officio); John Neilson (secretary); Scott Penney (member at large); Denise Jolley (member at large); Jennifer Scott (vice chair); Kim Mortreuil (member at large); Stephanie Klatt (member at large); Beverley Superle (member at large); Samantha Aro (member at large).
As listed on its 2023 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Sfu Childcare Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 107971988RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.