Strive Living Society
Publicly funded institution · Coquitlam, British Columbia · BN 107494908RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($52,075,470) as filed with the CRA.
Strive Living Society is a charitable organization based in Coquitlam, 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 $53M in revenue and $52.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 77% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $5,073.
Compared with 427 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 49% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 200 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $30.4M in 2020 to $53M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
Assisted living residential home support day programs acquired brain injury community leisure assisted independent living supported independent living children's services senior and home care services
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $53M | $52.1M | $47.9M | — | — | $6M |
| 2023 | $41.1M | — | $37.3M | — | — | $5.1M |
| 2022 | $36.1M | $35.8M | $32.5M | — | — | $4.7M |
| 2021 | $33.9M | $33.3M | $30.7M | — | — | $4.4M |
| 2020 | $30.4M | $29.5M | $27.2M | $50 | $1,500 | $3.8M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $5,073 from 2 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9992 positions
- $120,000–159,9992 positions
- $80,000–119,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions200
- Total compensation, all staff$29M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Kyle Takeuchi (treasurer); David Lee-Young (director); Trudy Klein (director); Barbara Jones (secretary); Catherine Vincent (director); Alice Williams (director); Alisha Lundgren-Drinkwater (director); Patrick Clark (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Strive Living Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 107494908RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.