Victoria Immigrant and Refugee Centre Society
Publicly funded institution · Victoria, British Columbia · BN 892568783RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,816,118) as filed with the CRA.
Victoria Immigrant and Refugee Centre Society is a charitable organization based in Victoria, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. 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 $2.9M in revenue and $2.8M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 85% from government, 12% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 10 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $165K.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.8M in 2020 to $2.9M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
Newcomer Wraparound Support Program: Initiated in 2012 and originally funded by the province of B.C. the program has been federally funded since 2014. It continues to provide specialized settlement services to the most vulnerable newcomers under the NWSP. BC Settlement & Integration Services (BCSIS): Provincially funded since 2018 this program provides orientation information and referrals to community resources including housing healthcare social benefits income tax and legal and immigration-related settlement information to newcomers. Enable Program: Enable program supports vulnera…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.9M | $2.8M | — | — | — | $1,795 |
| 2023 | $3.4M | $3.4M | — | — | — | -$34K |
| 2022 | $2.9M | $2.8M | — | — | — | -$56K |
| 2021 | $2M | $2M | — | — | — | -$78K |
| 2020 | $1.8M | $1.8M | $1.8M | — | — | -$58K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $165K from 10 charities:
- The Victoria Foundation$67K
- United Way Southern Vancouver Island$30K
- Vancouver Foundation$30K
- Canadahelps Canadon$16K
- TELUS Friendly Future Foundation$10K
- Saint John's School of Alberta Legacy Foundation$6,875
- BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust$2,708
- The Hamber Foundation$2,000
- Broad View United$500
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$100
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Total compensation, all staff$2M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Patti Grey (member at - large); Zaheera Jinnah (vice president); Bushra AlQudayri (secretary); Andrea McCoy (president); Parmjeet Uppal (treasurer); Justin Patton (member at-large); Gladys Wambugu (member at-large).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Victoria Immigrant and Refugee Centre Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 892568783RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.