World Bicycle Relief Canada
Charitable organization · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 804964500RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,462,193) as filed with the CRA.
World Bicycle Relief Canada is a charitable organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.3M in revenue and $1.5M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 100% from donations. In 2024, 17 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $577K.
Compared with 1,125 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 45% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 1 permanent full-time position.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $290K in 2020 to $1.3M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
World bicyle relief (wbr) achieves its mission through two programs mobilized communities and a social enterprise buffalo bicyles. Mobilized communities partners with communities to identify distance barriers and through the donation of bicycles and supportive programming improves community access to healthcare education and livelihoods through integrated multi-year multi-sector programming. Buffalo bicycles allows wbr to address the challenge of distance on a larger scale by playing an integral role in mobilized communities partnering with other ngos to facilitate a multiplier effect …
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.3M | $1.5M | $1.3M | $179K | — | $1.1M |
| 2023 | $1.3M | $875K | $678K | $150K | $71K | $1.2M |
| 2022 | $1M | $1.3M | $1.3M | $1,851 | — | $825K |
| 2021 | $978K | $277K | $206K | — | — | $1.1M |
| 2020 | $290K | $165K | $144K | — | — | $420K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $577K from 17 charities:
- The Peter Gilgan Foundation$411K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$80K
- Canadahelps Canadon$13K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$11K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$11K
- The Randy Gillies Family Foundation$10K
- Airlie Foundation$10K
- BenefAction Foundation$9,100
- WCPD Foundation$7,600
- The Macdonald Griffin Charitable Foundation$5,000
- United Way of Greater Toronto$4,000
- Burgundy Legacy Foundation$2,500
- Aqueduct Foundation$1,000
- The Calgary Foundation$750
- BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust$611
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$293
- United Way of Prince Edward Island$104
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions1
- Total compensation, all staff$99K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Kathleen O'Brien (director); Henry Brown (director); David Neiswander (director); Liam Philley (director); Katriina Niitsoo (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from World Bicycle Relief Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 804964500RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.