Sooke Family Resource Society
Publicly funded institution · Sooke, British Columbia · BN 128217098RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($5,129,148) as filed with the CRA.
Sooke Family Resource 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 $4.8M in revenue and $5.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 83% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 7 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $153K.
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 48% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 27 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
Sooke Family Resource Society offers a variety of programs and services for children youth adults and families. These include family support parenting education childcare resource and referral licensed preschool prenatal education and outreach early years services youth outreach life skills and community inclusion home sharing mental health assessment and treatment affordable counselling and health and wellness workshops. Community services include: a resource library; distribution of donated food bus tickets voucher for both food and clothing technology support and educatio…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.8M | $5.1M | $4.6M | $5,000 | — | $1.1M |
| 2023 | $4.3M | $4.6M | $4.2M | $4,370 | — | $1.1M |
| 2022 | $3.8M | $3.9M | $3.4M | $3,307 | — | $1.1M |
| 2021 | $3.7M | $3.9M | $3.5M | $1,098 | — | $1M |
| 2020 | $3.4M | $3.6M | $3.2M | $773 | $0 | $940K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $153K from 7 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9995 positions
- $40,000–79,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions27
- Total compensation, all staff$3.2M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Brian de Clare (treasurer); Janice Alexander (secretary); Michael Strong (director); Robert Purdy (vice chair).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Sooke Family Resource Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 128217098RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.