Vancouver Adaptive Snow Sports
Charitable organization · North Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 892542168RR0001 · Complementary or Alternative Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($244,735) as filed with the CRA.
Vancouver Adaptive Snow Sports is a charitable organization based in North Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under complementary or alternative health care. In its fiscal year ending August 31, 2024, it reported $250K in revenue and $245K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 18% from donations, 15% from government, 40% from other charities. In 2024, 9 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $58K.
Compared with 1,130 health charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 32% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 77% of that peer group.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
Vancouver Adaptive Snow Sports ('VASS') provides ski and snowboard programs for disabled students of all ages at the Vancouver based ski mountains. Programs include: a variety of Learn-to-Ski programs for all skill levels Learn-to-Snowboard programs for all skill levels Drop-In ski and snowboard programs Adaptive Race programs and Sit-Ski programs. In total we ran 22 specific programs. Many have run in the past with our two unique family/support programs and the peer-to-peer program in their third year and thriving. The fiscal 2024 year was not a typical season due to a significant chall…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $250K | $245K | $170K | $27K | — | $311K |
| 2023 | $254K | $234K | $176K | $21K | — | $306K |
| 2022 | $193K | $190K | $145K | $23K | — | $286K |
| 2021 | $102K | $155K | $129K | $8,982 | — | $283K |
| 2020 | $223K | $233K | $166K | $16K | — | $335K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $58K from 9 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Permanent full-time positions0
- Total compensation, all staff$35K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Anne Bethune (president); Ewa Holender (vice president); Tom Gillespie (treasurer); Alexander Millar (director); Tom Mooney (director); Jack Hughes (director); Liisa Geist-O'Hara (director); Bryce Eyton (director); Jim Neal (director); Amelia Gillies (director); Bryanna Moroney (director); Mark Davison (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Vancouver Adaptive Snow Sports’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 892542168RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.