West Vancouver Fire Fighters Charitable Society
Public foundation · West Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 862230695RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($53,425) as filed with the CRA.
West Vancouver Fire Fighters Charitable Society is a public foundation based in West Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $49K in revenue and $53K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 99% from donations. In 2024, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $18K.
Compared with 3,025 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 14% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 9 qualified donees totalling $26K in 2024, the largest being $8,000 to British Columbia Professional Fire Fighters' Burn Fund. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $21K in 2020 to $49K in 2024.
In its own words
Raise funds to gift to charities -raise funds to provide bursaries to high school students
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $49K | $53K | $6,000 | — | $26K | $20K |
| 2023 | $42K | $26K | $3,860 | — | $7,396 | $24K |
| 2022 | $20K | $25K | $7,555 | — | $13K | $8,489 |
| 2021 | $15K | $17K | $5,500 | — | $10K | $14K |
| 2020 | $21K | $12K | $127 | — | $11K | $16K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $26K to 9 qualified donees:
- British Columbia Professional Fire Fighters' Burn Fund$8,000
- Family Services of the North Shore Foundation$5,000
- Buddy Check for Jesse Society$2,500
- Muscular Dystrophy Canada / Dystrophie musculaire Canada$2,500
- Lookout Housing and Health Society$2,000
- North Shore Volunteers for Seniors$2,000
- West Vancouver Community Centres Services Society$2,000
- The Royal Canadian Legion #008 Poppy Fund$1,000
- Canadahelps Canadon$1,000
Received $18K from 2 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from West Vancouver Fire Fighters Charitable Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 862230695RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.