Vancouver Island Crisis Society
Publicly funded institution · Nanaimo, British Columbia · BN 107758831RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,143,095) as filed with the CRA.
Vancouver Island Crisis Society is a charitable organization based in Nanaimo, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under core health care. 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 $2.2M in revenue and $2.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 91% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 5 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $25K.
Compared with 717 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 53% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 100% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 11 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1M in 2020 to $2.2M in 2024.
In its own words
Vancouver Island Crisis Society continued to provide accessible voice text and chat crisis intervention and suicide prevention services including postvention programs. A team of trained 31 Volunteer and Staff Crisis line Responders and 14 Administrative Staff provided access to community resources and public education. In addition as part of a network we continued to support callers via the provincial 1800SUICIDE and the provincial 310Mental Health Support lines. As an original member of the Talk Suicide Canada network which morphed into the 9-8-8 Canada Suicide Help Line we provided su…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.2M | $2.1M | $1.9M | $0 | $0 | $479K |
| 2023 | $1.3M | $1.2M | $1.1M | $0 | $0 | $376K |
| 2022 | $1.3M | $1.1M | $997K | $0 | $0 | $322K |
| 2021 | $1.2M | $1.1M | $976K | $0 | $25K | $139K |
| 2020 | $1M | $1M | $901K | $0 | $0 | $73K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $25K from 5 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9999 positions
- Permanent full-time positions11
- Total compensation, all staff$1M
Schedule 3 of its 2023 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Vancouver Island Crisis Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 107758831RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.