Westcoast Family Centres Society
Publicly funded institution · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 131454555RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($10,672,286) as filed with the CRA.
Westcoast Family Centres 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 $11M in revenue and $10.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 95% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 4 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $29K.
Compared with 427 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 23% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 75 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $7.3M in 2020 to $11M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Provide parenting programs to families through funding from ministry of child & family development (mcfd) and other donors in vancouver north shore maple ridge and the tri-cities. Services provided include: one-to-one outreach work clinical counselling play therapy education and support groups and supervised visitation.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $11M | $10.7M | $9.3M | — | — | $1.9M |
| 2023 | $8.2M | $8M | $7.3M | — | — | $1.1M |
| 2022 | $7.9M | $7.9M | $7.2M | — | — | $1M |
| 2021 | $7.9M | $7.6M | $6.9M | — | — | $1000K |
| 2020 | $7.3M | $7.3M | $6.6M | — | — | $697K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $29K from 4 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9996 positions
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions75
- Total compensation, all staff$7.6M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
John Clark (vice president); Patricia Wallace (director); Major Brar (secretary); Mikaela Taylor (treasurer); Shannon Svingen-Jones (president); Gerri Anderson (director); Gyda Chud (director); Joanna Clark (director); Karen Norman (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Westcoast Family Centres Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 131454555RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.