Wish Drop-In Centre Society
Publicly funded institution · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 870475563RR0001 · Supportive Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($7,577,565) as filed with the CRA.
Wish Drop-In Centre Society is a charitable organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under supportive health care. 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 $7.4M in revenue and $7.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 13% from donations, 69% from government, 14% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 50 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $722K.
Compared with 717 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 25% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 30 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $2.4M in 2020 to $7.4M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
Wish drop-in centre society is the largest sex worker support organization in canada and serves women and gender-diverse people involved in vancouver's street-based sex trade. Wish operates in vancouver's downtown eastside providing low-barrier peer-driven wraparound services including: the wish drop-in centre (open 18 hours per day 7 days per week through which participants access a range of critical supports); canada's first-ever 24/7 emergency shelter for street-based sex workers; wish's mobile access project (map) van that provides critical outreach services to street-based sex worke…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $7.4M | $7.6M | $6.2M | $188K | — | $670K |
| 2023 | $6.6M | $6.6M | $5.7M | $132K | — | $814K |
| 2022 | $6.1M | $6.2M | $5.4M | $157K | — | $1M |
| 2021 | $4.6M | $4.3M | $3.7M | $130K | — | $826K |
| 2020 | $2.4M | $2.3M | $1.7M | $19K | — | $522K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $722K from 50 charities:
- The Houssian Foundation$110K
- The Sprott Foundation$100K
- Vancouver Foundation$90K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$70K
- Canadahelps Canadon$55K
- Canadahelps Canadon$55K
- Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society$40K
- Music Heals Charitable Foundation$22K
- Diamond Foundation$15K
- DR. Ann Worth Charitable Foundation$15K
- The Wickerson Foundation$15K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$12K
- Future Generations Foundation$10K
- Tweedledum Foundation$10K
- Face the World Foundation$10K
- Vancity Community Foundation$7,500
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$6,252
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$5,992
- BenefAction Foundation$5,500
- United Way of Greater Toronto$5,000
- John Hardie Mitchell Family Foundation$5,000
- British Columbia Masonic Foundation$5,000
- Canada Gives$5,000
- Vancity Community Foundation$5,000
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$3,981
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9992 positions
- $80,000–119,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions30
- Total compensation, all staff$6M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Nycki Basra (board member); Alessandra Smith (treasurer); Lisa Gibson (board member); Marnie Goldenberg (board member); Lauren Casey (co-chair); Grace Gian (board member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Wish Drop-In Centre Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 870475563RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.