Strathcona Community Centre Association (1972)
Publicly funded institution · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 119200210RR0001 · Public Amenities · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,462,460) as filed with the CRA.
Strathcona Community Centre Association (1972) is a charitable organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under public amenities. 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 December 31, 2024, it reported $2.5M in revenue and $2.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 57% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 12 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $133K.
Compared with 276 public-amenity institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 66% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (10 positions in that band). The charity reported 15 permanent full-time positions.
In its own words
Ongoing programs include recreation social cultural and educational programs for all ages. Some examples of programs including arts and crafts dance drama performing arts sports physical activity aerobics licenced out of school care licenced preschool as well as holiday programs in the spring summer and winter. We also run various food programs for our community including a children’s backpack program breakfast program and community kitchen programs. We also run a program for at risk youth in the neighbourhood.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.5M | $2.5M | $2.2M | — | — | $1.2M |
| 2023 | $2.5M | $2.4M | $2.2M | — | — | $1.2M |
| 2022 | $2.3M | $2.1M | $2M | — | — | $1.1M |
| 2021 | $2.2M | $2M | $1.9M | — | — | $937K |
| 2020 | $1.8M | $1.5M | $1.5M | — | — | $701K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $133K from 12 charities:
- Vancouver Sun Children's Fund Society$35K
- Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society$24K
- Vancity Community Foundation$20K
- Food Banks British Columbia$12K
- Breakfast Club of Canada$11K
- Face the World Foundation$10K
- Canadahelps Canadon$8,959
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$6,775
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$1,710
- Vancouver Foundation$1,222
- Vancity Community Foundation$1,200
- Park Place Foundation$1,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,99910 positions
- Permanent full-time positions15
- Total compensation, all staff$1.9M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Strathcona Community Centre Association (1972)’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119200210RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.