Victoria Therapeutic Riding Association
Charitable organization · Brentwood Bay, British Columbia · BN 890341977RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($542,550) as filed with the CRA.
Victoria Therapeutic Riding Association is a charitable organization based in Brentwood Bay, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending August 31, 2024, it reported $620K in revenue and $543K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 17% from donations, 16% from government, 23% from other charities. In 2024, 17 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $308K.
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 24% of peers. None of its ten highest-paid positions cleared $40,000. The charity reported 1 permanent full-time position.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $319K in 2020 to $620K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
Vtra continued to deliver core programs including therapeutic riding stable management and adaptive driving. Vtra also offered camps to youth and teens during both spring and summer breaks. These programs served 128 distinct individual who filled over 361 openings in our programs. This was achieved thanks to the incredible support of 200+ active community based volunteers who contributed over 8 000 hours over the course of the year. We also continued to welcome participants in our early intervention program developed in partnership with the queen alexandra centre for children's health and sch…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $620K | $543K | $391K | $15K | — | $133K |
| 2023 | $449K | $475K | $293K | $8,544 | — | $36K |
| 2022 | $399K | $433K | $262K | $5,378 | — | $62K |
| 2021 | $386K | $409K | $253K | $5,361 | — | $95K |
| 2020 | $319K | $306K | $232K | $6,552 | — | $119K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $308K from 17 charities:
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$64K
- Norgaard Foundation$50K
- The Victoria Foundation$43K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$29K
- Canadahelps Canadon$25K
- Canadahelps Canadon$25K
- The Garth Homer Foundation$15K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$14K
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$8,709
- Charlton L Smith Charitable Foundation$8,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$5,487
- McAdams Foundation$5,000
- The KPMG Foundation/la Fondation KPMG$5,000
- The Jawl Foundation$5,000
- Saanich Community Legacy Foundation$3,000
- BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust$2,366
- B.C. Therapeutic Riding Association$435
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions1
- Total compensation, all staff$299K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Annie Brothwell (president); Karen Diederichs (secretary); Bonnie Campbell (director); Heather Love (director); Sherri Niles (director); Anne Silver (director); Anne Waterhouse (director); Christina Stevens (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Victoria Therapeutic Riding Association’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 890341977RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.