Vancouver Urban Ministries
Charitable organization · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 832193627RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($184,537) as filed with the CRA.
Vancouver Urban Ministries is a charitable organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $147K in revenue and $185K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 9% from donations, 7% from government, 84% from other charities. In 2024, 17 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $115K.
Compared with 2,470 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 53% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $40,000–79,999 range. The charity reported 2 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $262K in 2020 to $147K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
The society serves lower mainland of vancouver children and youth with free after school tutoring free music lessons and sponsored activities in the community.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $147K | $185K | $164K | $306 | — | $98K |
| 2023 | $185K | $205K | $178K | $5,569 | — | $135K |
| 2022 | $192K | $203K | $167K | $9,001 | — | $156K |
| 2021 | $214K | $214K | $191K | — | — | $167K |
| 2020 | $262K | $206K | $178K | $4,270 | — | $167K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $115K from 17 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$23K
- Canadahelps Canadon$23K
- Vancouver Sowers Society of Education$13K
- Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society$10K
- C.r.r.s. Culture Regeneration Research Society$10K
- West Point Grey Baptist Church$6,200
- David and Dorothy Lam Foundation$5,000
- Chan Better World Foundation$5,000
- Face the World Foundation$5,000
- Foundation for Fellowship Baptist Ministries$4,000
- Courtenay Fellowship Baptist Church$3,000
- Fraser Lands Church of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Canada$2,799
- Dunbar Heights Baptist Church$1,025
- Jimmy Chee Foundation$1,000
- Collingwood Baptist Church$1,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$694
- Gore Mutual Insurance Company Foundation$500
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions2
- Total compensation, all staff$162K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Peter Cave (chair); Stanley Choi (director); Hart Molthagen (director); Ralf Schmidtke (director); Tillie Kwong (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Vancouver Urban Ministries’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 832193627RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.