The Lower Mainland Purpose Society for Youth and Families
Publicly funded institution · New Westminster, British Columbia · BN 108087313RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($13,747,035) as filed with the CRA.
The Lower Mainland Purpose Society for Youth and Families is a charitable organization based in New Westminster, 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 $13.5M in revenue and $13.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 73% from government, 9% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 7 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $315K.
Compared with 427 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 33% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 84% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 264 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $8M in 2020 to $13.5M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
The Society provides community based educational recreational health housing harm reduction and counselling programs for children and youths and their families particularly for but not exclusively for those referred by government agencies and other agencies. It also provides research related to activities and programs such as Family Futures - Advocacy teaching resource and parent courses Purpose Independent Secondary School daycares rent banks clinics and additional services and treatments.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $13.5M | $13.7M | $12.2M | $5,479 | $0 | $4M |
| 2023 | $11.4M | $11.5M | $10.1M | $5,512 | — | $4.2M |
| 2022 | $9.9M | $10.3M | $8.9M | $2,417 | — | $4.3M |
| 2021 | $9M | $8.3M | $6.8M | $1,005 | — | $4.8M |
| 2020 | $8M | $7.7M | $6.4M | $22K | $100 | $4.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $315K from 7 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9999 positions
- Permanent full-time positions264
- Total compensation, all staff$9.8M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Rick Fabbro (president); Adele Clarke (director); Tanya Sedlacek (treasurer); Alejandro Diaz (director); Pav Shroff (director); Rozina Jaffer (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Lower Mainland Purpose Society for Youth and Families’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 108087313RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.