The Last Door Recovery Society
Charitable organization · New Westminster, British Columbia · BN 131404683RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($7,669,812) as filed with the CRA.
The Last Door Recovery Society is a charitable organization based in New Westminster, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under core health care. In its fiscal year ending August 31, 2024, it reported $7.7M in revenue and $7.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 6% from donations, 28% from government. In 2024, 12 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $309K.
Compared with 453 health charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 77% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (5 positions in that band). The charity reported 40 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $5M in 2020 to $7.7M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
Initiate and participate in therapeutic rehabilitative activities and endeavour for chemically depended persons; solicit receive hold investments and distribution contributions from donors for the implementation maintenance and support of facilities and programs developed by the society; in activities of chemical programs -media addiction and lifeskills training & education groups to assist in on-going programs. Keystone is a 40 acre rural property used a rural retreat portion of addiction treatment. Property has farm and may have a small noncommercial greenhouse and gard…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $7.7M | $7.7M | $7M | $51K | — | $2.9M |
| 2023 | $6.2M | $6.7M | $5.8M | $30K | — | $2.8M |
| 2022 | $5.3M | $5.3M | $4.6M | $48K | — | $3.4M |
| 2021 | $4.8M | $4.4M | $3.6M | $120K | — | $3.4M |
| 2020 | $5M | $4.6M | $3.6M | $186K | — | $2.9M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $309K from 12 charities:
- Ronald S. Roadburg Foundation$160K
- Hockey Helps the Homeless/hockey Aide les Sans-Abri$100K
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$15K
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$11K
- Vancouver Foundation$6,000
- Canadahelps Canadon$4,805
- BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust$3,301
- The Dayhu Family Foundation$3,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$2,797
- Christian Stewardship Services$2,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$1,229
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$200
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9995 positions
- $40,000–79,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions40
- Total compensation, all staff$2.9M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Gary George (treasurer); Haneef Esmail (vice-president); Robert Toews (member); Jim Bennett (member); Lesli Meyer (member); Aman Sanghera (president); Scott Lang (member); Graham Tippett (member); Jennifer Lowrey (member); Dennis George (member); Dave Seymour (member); Amardeep Lail (member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Last Door Recovery Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 131404683RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.