Vancouver Island Cooperative Pre-School Association
Publicly funded institution · Victoria, British Columbia · BN 130915341RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-04-30. Split of total expenditures ($57,597) as filed with the CRA.
Vancouver Island Cooperative Pre-School Association is a charitable organization based in Victoria, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under teaching institutions. 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 April 30, 2024, it reported $42K in revenue and $58K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
In 2023, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $2,110.
Compared with 673 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 64% of peers.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $13K in 2020 to $42K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
The Vancouver Island Cooperative Preschool Association supports 12 parent participation preschools on Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands. The Association serves as an umbrella organization for preschools owned and operated by the members on a non-profit non sectarian basis which supports the parent membership with management skills training and manuals the Early Childhood Educators with orientation and in-service training and promotes parent education and parent participation in the classroom. VICPA also runs a community-wide ECE and parent education conference.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $42K | $58K | $56K | — | — | $26K |
| 2023 | $95K | $96K | $95K | — | — | $42K |
| 2022 | $18K | $24K | $23K | — | — | $44K |
| 2021 | $19K | $22K | $22K | — | — | $49K |
| 2020 | $13K | $21K | $19K | — | — | $50K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2023
Received $2,110 from 1 charity:
- Canadahelps Canadon$2,110
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Angela Paletta-Haslam (president); Rhonda Sylven (president); Gail Atkins (treasurer); Catherine Kay (secretary).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Vancouver Island Cooperative Pre-School Association’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 130915341RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.