The Writers' Exchange Society
Charitable organization · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 795045095RR0001 · Support of Schools and Education · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($614,068) as filed with the CRA.
The Writers' Exchange Society is a charitable organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under support of schools and education. In its fiscal year ending August 31, 2024, it reported $619K in revenue and $614K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 18% from donations, 10% from government, 71% from other charities. In 2024, 29 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $458K.
Compared with 1,764 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 60% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (9 positions in that band). The charity reported 11 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
The Writers' Exchange is a community that supports under-resourced kids and youth to build their confidence and get excited about reading writing and their ownpotential. Kids ages 5 - 18 work with volunteer mentors to boost their reading writing and social-emotional competencies in programs which run after school oversummer and in inner-city teachers' classrooms. All programs are free for the kids and families that participate and most programs end with the kids' stories beingpublished in professionally designed and printed publications to be shared with friends family and the community.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $619K | $614K | $540K | $55K | — | $69K |
| 2023 | $670K | $665K | $592K | $18K | — | $65K |
| 2022 | $682K | $714K | $643K | $50K | — | $110K |
| 2021 | $662K | $628K | $561K | $29K | — | $144K |
| 2020 | $524K | $516K | $452K | $37K | — | $109K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $458K from 29 charities:
- H W Siebens Charitable Foundation$70K
- Louis Family Foundation$60K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$55K
- Abbott Foundation$42K
- The Waterbury Foundation$40K
- Vancouver Foundation$31K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$21K
- Sasamat Foundation$20K
- TELUS Friendly Future Foundation$20K
- Seedlings Foundation$15K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$11K
- Johansen-Larsen Foundation$10K
- Canada Gives$10K
- JTC Heersink Foundation$10K
- Canadahelps Canadon$6,472
- B.C. Social Venture Partners Foundation$5,650
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$5,621
- LRJ Charitable Foundation$5,600
- Y.P. Heung Foundation$5,000
- The Amir and Yasmin Virani Family Foundation$5,000
- The Wolrige Foundation$3,000
- The Hamber Foundation$2,000
- Vancity Community Foundation$2,000
- Click - Contributing to Lives of Inner City Kids Society$2,000
- Vancity Community Foundation$1,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9999 positions
- $1–39,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions11
- Total compensation, all staff$479K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Morie Ford (chair); Margaret Dickson (secretary); Grant Conroy (treasurer); Linda Louis (director); Gracen Chungath (director); Fiona LaPorte (director); Hanna Dandanell (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Writers' Exchange Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 795045095RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.