Sooke Elderly Citizens' Housing Society
Publicly funded institution · Sooke, British Columbia · BN 134317585RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($6,002,069) as filed with the CRA.
Sooke Elderly Citizens' Housing Society is a charitable organization based in Sooke, 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 $5.6M in revenue and $6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 71% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $126.
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 93% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $120,000–159,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 22 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 2 names.
In its own words
The society’s principal purpose is to provide quality housing at subsidized rents to elderly citizens of the sooke bc region and the construction and operation of assisted living and complex care facility for seniors
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $5.6M | $6M | $5.9M | — | — | $876K |
| 2023 | $5.4M | $5.3M | $5.3M | — | — | $1.2M |
| 2022 | $5.5M | $5M | $4.9M | — | — | $1.1M |
| 2021 | $5.4M | $4.9M | $4.8M | — | — | $551K |
| 2020 | $4.8M | $4.6M | $4.5M | — | — | $60K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $126 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
- $40,000–79,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions22
- Total compensation, all staff$4.2M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Beth Cox (director); Christy Willoughan (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Sooke Elderly Citizens' Housing Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 134317585RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.