The British Columbia Lions Society for Children with Disabilites
Charitable organization · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 119217248RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-09-30. Split of total expenditures ($5,355,007) as filed with the CRA.
The British Columbia Lions Society for Children with Disabilites is a charitable organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under core health care. In its fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, it reported $4.6M in revenue and $5.4M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 34% from donations, 8% from government, 7% from other charities. In 2024, 23 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $542K.
Compared with 453 health charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 14% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 92% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 27 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $2.2M in 2020 to $4.6M in 2024.
In its own words
Our mission is to provide support and to enable access for individuals with disabilities. Through our overnight summer camp & city day camp programs for children and adults ages 6-49 years old we provide fully inclusive outdoor camps in three locations around the province offering activities and programming to help campers develop their self-awareness improve their self-confidence provide physical activity experiences and create lasting friendships. City day camps are offered to provide youth with empowering experiences to build life skills self esteem and independence. Both of these pro…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.6M | $5.4M | $2.7M | $1.9M | — | -$1M |
| 2023 | $3.7M | $4.5M | $2.3M | $1.5M | — | -$29K |
| 2022 | $3.7M | $3.6M | $2.1M | $1M | — | $530K |
| 2021 | $2.3M | $2.6M | $1.5M | $379K | $338K | $444K |
| 2020 | $2.2M | $2.3M | $897K | $676K | $190K | $252K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $542K from 23 charities:
- Easter Seals Canada Timbres de Pâques Canada$115K
- Sonrise Foundation$100K
- British Columbia Easter Seal Society$90K
- The Victoria Foundation$89K
- Easter Seal House Society$40K
- TELUS Friendly Future Foundation$20K
- Community Foundation of the North Okanagan$16K
- Central Okanagan Foundation$14K
- Canada Post Community Foundation/Fondation Communautaire de Postes Canada$10K
- CKNW Kids' Fund$10K
- Vancouver Foundation$9,547
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$6,329
- Canadahelps Canadon$6,063
- BenefAction Foundation$5,000
- Traine Charitable Foundation$3,997
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$2,300
- BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust$1,134
- Iain Harris Family Foundation$1,000
- The Barry Lapointe Foundation$1,000
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$706
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$500
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$250
- Surrey Fire Fighters Charitable Society—
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
- $120,000–159,9992 positions
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions27
- Total compensation, all staff$2.8M
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 The British Columbia Lions Society for Children with Disabilites’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119217248RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.