West Side Family Place Society
Publicly funded institution · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 130631781RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($379,112) as filed with the CRA.
West Side Family Place Society is a charitable organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. 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 March 31, 2024, it reported $385K in revenue and $379K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 8% from donations, 60% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 4 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $31K.
Compared with 1,890 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 56% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $40,000–79,999 range. The charity reported 5 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
West side family place society is a resource centre dedicated to support families with young children. The society offers a daily family drop-in regular parenting education and support programs. The society also offers an outreach drop-in program and toy lending library off site
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $385K | $379K | $335K | $16K | — | $411K |
| 2023 | $288K | $366K | $335K | $10K | — | $405K |
| 2022 | $318K | $334K | $322K | $50 | — | $482K |
| 2021 | $362K | $291K | $262K | — | — | $499K |
| 2020 | $274K | $274K | $249K | $5,737 | — | $428K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $31K from 4 charities:
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
- $1–39,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions5
- Total compensation, all staff$269K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Paro Ray (co-chair); Elizabeth Vander Hoeven (director); Ellen Allard (director); Hannah Dejong (director); Angela Lam (treasurer).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from West Side Family Place Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 130631781RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.