'worklink' Employment Society
Publicly funded institution · Victoria, British Columbia · BN 127615003RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,909,051) as filed with the CRA.
'worklink' Employment Society is a charitable organization based in Victoria, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. 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 $3.6M in revenue and $3.9M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 93% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $97.
Compared with 829 community-service institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 29% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 51 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.6M | $3.9M | $3.3M | — | — | $6.3M |
| 2023 | $3.9M | $3.9M | $3.2M | — | — | $3.3M |
| 2022 | $3.8M | $3.5M | $2.9M | — | — | $3.3M |
| 2021 | $3.7M | $3.3M | $2.8M | — | — | $3M |
| 2020 | $3.5M | $3M | — | — | — | $2.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $97 from 2 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9998 positions
- Permanent full-time positions51
- Total compensation, all staff$2.5M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Joanne Cowan (treasurer); Shirley Hoyer (chair); Georgina Short; Craig Smith.
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from 'worklink' Employment Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 127615003RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.