Surrounded by Cedar Child and Family Services Society
Publicly funded institution · Victoria, British Columbia · BN 859973042RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($13,975,319) as filed with the CRA.
Surrounded by Cedar Child and Family Services Society is a charitable organization based in Victoria, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. 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 $14.1M in revenue and $14M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 92% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 4 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $78K.
Compared with 115 community-service institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 45% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (10 positions in that band). The charity reported 54 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $6.4M in 2020 to $14.1M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Providing child and family services to the urban indigenous peoples in greater victoria. Programs include: guardianship residential resources child & youth counselling intensive youth support services cultural programming life long connections agreements with young adults (aya) program and elder in residence.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $14.1M | $14M | $12.5M | — | — | $1.7M |
| 2023 | $9.9M | $10.1M | $10M | — | — | $1.6M |
| 2022 | $9.7M | $9.7M | $9.6M | — | — | $1.7M |
| 2021 | $7.9M | $7.6M | $7.5M | — | — | $1.7M |
| 2020 | $6.4M | $6.4M | $6.4M | — | — | $1.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $78K from 4 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,99910 positions
- Permanent full-time positions54
- Total compensation, all staff$3.4M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Sherry Jakesta (director); Bruce Underwood (president); Sekwan Wabasca (vice president); Sue Simard (secretary); David Dick (director); Joy Charleson (ncn representative); Jenny Morgan (treasurer); Suzanne Patterson (executive director); Marren Gray (executive assistant).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Surrounded by Cedar Child and Family Services Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 859973042RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.