Victoria Hand Project
Charitable organization · Victoria, British Columbia · BN 814164323RR0001 · Health Care Products · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($317,309) as filed with the CRA.
Victoria Hand Project is a charitable organization based in Victoria, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under health care products. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $284K in revenue and $317K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 18% from donations, 47% from other charities. In 2024, 11 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $82K.
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 lower than 85% of that peer group. None of its ten highest-paid positions cleared $40,000. The charity reported 4 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $53K in 2021 to $284K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
We work with clinicians in developing countries and low-income communities to provide prothetic arms to poor amputees. We provide the clinicians with training in 3d printing and 3d scanning allowing them to make the custom protgetic arms in their own clinics. The clinicians are provided a fee for each prothetic arm that they make and fit to amputees. The recipients of the prosthetic arm are not charged by the victoria hand project. We currently operate in 8 developing countries and help low-income amputees in canada and the united states. We currently work with the following collaborators: as…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2021–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $284K | $317K | $223K | $899 | — | $177K |
| 2023 | $372K | $301K | $241K | $1,839 | — | $181K |
| 2022 | $160K | $143K | $113K | $1,085 | — | $117K |
| 2021 | $53K | $110K | $73K | — | $0 | $59K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $82K from 11 charities:
- The Stuart and Susan Bird Family Foundation$25K
- Nelson Arthur Hyland Foundation$25K
- Canadahelps Canadon$9,405
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$5,500
- Foord Family Foundation$5,420
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$5,000
- British Columbia Rehabilitation Foundation$3,000
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$1,764
- Wee Waifs Worldwide Trust$1,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$651
- BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust$457
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $1–39,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions4
- Total compensation, all staff$146K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Joshua Coutts (director); Nikolai Dechev (chief technical officer); Jerome Etwaroo (director); Nigel Livingston (director); Michael Peirone (executive director); Aislinn Sirk (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Victoria Hand Project’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 814164323RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.