Veterans Transition Network
Publicly funded institution · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 817998503RR0001 · Supportive Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($5,921,391) as filed with the CRA.
Veterans Transition Network is a charitable organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under supportive 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 December 31, 2024, it reported $6M in revenue and $5.9M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 11% from donations, 61% from government, 28% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 41 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.3M.
Compared with 717 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 41% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 8 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $2.1M in 2020 to $6M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
Vtn offers group counselling programs for veterans across canada. The programs are designed to help veterans overcome trauma improve mental health and well-being strengthen family life stabilize employment and aid the transition from soldier to civilian. We offer our programs in french and english to canadian military and rcmp veterans and welcome all ages ranks and service histories. Due to covid-19 we adapted the delivery of our longstanding 10-day veterans transition program to continue to serve veterans and offered a covid-adapted 5 day transition skills course (tsc). In 2022 w…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $6M | $5.9M | $5.1M | $113K | — | $222K |
| 2023 | $4.7M | $4.5M | $3.8M | $162K | — | $149K |
| 2022 | $3.2M | $3.8M | $3.1M | $164K | $75K | $29K |
| 2021 | $4.5M | $4.4M | $3.9M | $124K | $83K | $651K |
| 2020 | $2.1M | $1.4M | $1M | $99K | — | $573K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $1.3M from 41 charities:
- True Patriot Love Foundation$360K
- British Columbia/yukon Command of the Royal Canadian Legion Foundation$216K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$111K
- La Fondation Emmanuelle Gattuso$100K
- Hewitt Foundation$100K
- The Peterson Foundation$60K
- Fondation québécoise des Vétérans/Quebec Veterans Foundation$60K
- The Victoria Foundation$55K
- Canadahelps Canadon$22K
- Canadahelps Canadon$22K
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$21K
- John Patrick Colfer Family Foundation$20K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$17K
- The London Drugs Foundation$15K
- Essential Needs foundation$14K
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$12K
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$10K
- The P & P Murray Foundation$7,500
- C And C Family Foundation$6,400
- BenefAction Foundation$6,000
- Olympia Charitable Foundation$5,000
- The Calgary Foundation$5,000
- R. Howard Webster Foundation$5,000
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$2,298
- Oriana Singers$1,683
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9994 positions
- $1–39,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions8
- Total compensation, all staff$928K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Adam Schell (treasurer); Gavin Dew (chair); Adrienne Alford-Burt (member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Veterans Transition Network’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 817998503RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.