Registered charity

Legal Services Society

Legal name on the register: LEGAL SERVICES SOCIETY

CA-E-0RDD-381SFormerBritish ColumbiaCanada (federal)Vancouver3 independent sources

$142.1MRevenue reported

12On the board

6Organisations connected

3Municipal licences

160Employees reported

3Independent publishers

84/100Evidence depth

October 15, 2026Latest source capture

On the record

Identifier: CA-E-0RDD-381S
Address: 400-510 BURRARD ST, VANCOUVER, BC, V6C 3A8
Earliest record: April 16, 2021

Identifiers held

Charity registration: 132364951RR0001
Business number: 132364951
odbus-licence: City of Vancouver:22-113183
statcan-odbus: 58e86ab6a0bc41586806
Vancouver licence: 4495062
Vancouver licence: 4642609
Vancouver licence: 4860305
Vancouver licence no.: 24-113444
Vancouver licence no.: 25-134886
Vancouver licence no.: 26-137721

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Evidence depth

84/100

Deep record

This scores the depth of the public evidence assembled here. It does not score the organisation’s quality, reputation, solvency or risk. The formula is fixed and reproducible. See the formula.

Identityregistrations and identifiers

Operationsmunicipal licences

Filed figuresfinancials or workforce

Public moneycontracts or grants

Relationshipsfiled board or organisation links

Qualificationsstanding offers or supply arrangements

Public activitypermits and recorded work

Regulatorydecided findings

Dated historyevents with effective dates

Additional graph evidence outside the score: 6 organisation connections.

Public footprint · version 1

Where this organisation appears in public records

Eight independent dimensions describe the size and shape of the evidence. They are deliberately not added into one company score: a licence, a grant, a director filing and a court finding mean different things.

Footprint is not performance.

A larger bar means more public records of that kind. It does not mean better, worse, safer, larger, more profitable or more reputable.

Identityregistries, identifiers and corroboration

Operationslicences and operating places

Filed disclosurepublic financials and workforce

100

Public moneycontracts, grants and contribution records

Public activitypermits and recorded work

Relationshipsfiled board and identifier-linked organisations

Regulatorydecided public findings

Historydated span and recorded events

Each dimension uses fixed, logarithmic caps so one dataset with thousands of repeated rows cannot drown out every other fact. Read the formula and limits.

Registrations

Registrar	Instrument	Number	Registered	Status
Canada Revenue Agency	Registered charity	132364951RR0001	—	Registered

Municipal licences (3)

Place	Category	Number	First issued	Status
Vancouver	Association or Society	4495062	November 24, 2023	Issued
Vancouver	Association or Society	4642609	November 20, 2024	Issued
Vancouver	Association or Society	4860305	November 14, 2025	Issued

A licence records permission to operate. It is issued by a municipality, not by a corporate registrar, and its presence says the organisation traded at that address on that date — nothing about whether it does today.

Board and officers on record (12)

Name	Position	Serving since	Status
Eloise Spitzer	DIRECTOR	December 11, 2023	ended December 10, 2026
Thomas Arbogast	DIRECTOR	December 11, 2023	ended December 10, 2026
Sarf Ahmed	DIRECTOR - FINANCE CHAIR	September 25, 2023	ended September 24, 2026
Allan Seckel	BOARD CHAIR	February 12, 2023	ended February 11, 2026
Lisa Scott	DIRECTOR	September 26, 2022	ended October 12, 2023
Gisela Ruebsaat	DIRECTOR	September 26, 2022	ended March 20, 2024
Brenda Knights	DIRECTOR	September 26, 2022	ended September 25, 2025
Karen Christiansen	DIRECTOR	June 8, 2022	ended September 16, 2023
Tracy Porteous	DIRECTOR	November 1, 2021	ended November 1, 2023
Brad Daisley	DIRECTOR	September 7, 2021	ended October 6, 2023
Phil Riddell	MEMBER	July 12, 2021	ended July 4, 2023
Donna Turko	DIRECTOR	April 16, 2021	ended April 22, 2025

Filed by the charity itself with the Canada Revenue Agency, under the Open Government Licence. This is the narrowest slate the source publishes — name, position, and tenure only; no address, phone, or email exists in the file to withhold. Why this is published and directors’ home addresses never are.

Organisations sharing a filed director name (6)

Every one of these rests on a single name in common, which is the weakest form this evidence takes — read them as leads, not findings.

Organisation	Kind	Names in common
College Of New Caledonia CA-E-MTWD-JWSF	Registered charity	1
Knowledge Network Corporation CA-E-T1X8-J5KC	Registered charity	1
Sudbury Finnishrest Home Society INC. CA-E-GJ4X-J9AM	Registered charity	1
The Spruce View Community Association CA-E-BBRK-1HV5	Registered charity	1
United Way Centraide North East Ontario / Nord-est de l'Ontario CA-E-V9CX-PD25	Registered charity	1
Westdale United Church CA-E-K0A6-5J5X	Registered charity	1

One name in common is a lead. Two is a link. These come from the director names each organisation filed with the Canada Revenue Agency, matched exactly as filed, and two people can share a name — across the whole corpus 95% of these rest on a single name, so a single match is genuinely weak evidence and is presented as such rather than dressed up. Two of the same names on the same pair of boards is a different matter: coincidence stops being a plausible explanation. A name appearing on more than eight boards is discarded outright as a probable collision.

The link is between organisations and carries only a count. Which people sit on which board stays on each organisation’s own page, exactly as the CRA published it, and there is deliberately no way here to search by a person or to list what one individual is involved in. Why that line is drawn there.

What it raised and spent — year ended March 31, 2024

Total revenue: $142,111,619
Total spending: $142,111,619
Total assets: $36,360,026
Total liabilities: $35,420,559

These are the charity’s own figures. They come from the T3010 return it filed with the Canada Revenue Agency, which is a statement the organisation makes about itself rather than an audit or an assessment of it. They are also a single year: a charity that received a capital gift, sold a building, or ran a campaign will look unlike itself.

A low share spent on programs is not by itself evidence of anything. Fundraising costs money, a year of building a reserve looks like underspending, and grant-making foundations pass money onward rather than running programs. The lines are shown as filed, with the CRA line numbers, so a reader can check them against the return.

What it does

Trade: Community Association
Licensed as: Association or Society
Industry code: 81
North American Industry Classification System

Trade and licence class are the publisher’s own words, kept as written rather than mapped onto a vocabulary of this site’s invention — a Calgary “RESTAURANT” and a Montréal “Restaurant service rapide” describe the same thing and are not the same string, and pretending otherwise would put words in a city’s mouth. The industry code is the exception: NAICS is a standard shared across Canada, the United States and Mexico, so it means the same thing wherever it appears. Only some publishers assign one.

Timeline

November 14, 2025Licence first issued — Association or Society
November 20, 2024Licence first issued — Association or Society
November 24, 2023Licence first issued — Association or Society

Why this is one record

5 public datasets from 3 independent publishers describe this organisation. They were joined into one record because the evidence below agreed — never on a matching name alone.

Same name and postal code V6C 3A8
asserted by Canada Revenue Agency and Statistics Canada and City of Vancouver
Same name and address — 510 burrard, vancouver, BC
asserted by Statistics Canada and City of Vancouver

An automatic merge requires a shared business number, or a matching name AND address — never a name by itself. How resolution works.

Where this record comes from

Dataset	Last captured	Cadence	Coverage kept	Health
Registered charities — directors and officers (2024 returns) Canada Revenue Agency · Open Government Licence – Canada	September 2, 2026	P1Y	1 captures · 0 comparisons	current
Registered charities — financial data (2024 returns) Canada Revenue Agency · Open Government Licence – Canada	September 5, 2026	P1Y	1 captures · 0 comparisons	current
Registered charities — identification (2024 returns) Canada Revenue Agency · Open Government Licence – Canada	September 8, 2026	P1Y	2 captures · 1 comparisons	current
Open Database of Businesses — version 1 Statistics Canada · Open Government Licence – Canada	—	—	—	not measured
Vancouver business licences City of Vancouver · Open Government Licence – Vancouver	October 15, 2026	P1M	3 captures · 1 comparisons	current

Freshness is measured, not implied. “Last captured” is when this project last completed a read of the whole source dataset. “Coverage kept” is how many immutable captures and meaningful capture-to-capture comparisons are available. A missed day remains an explicit gap; a later snapshot cannot tell us what happened inside it. See every source.

This page is assembled from open data. It is not an official record, and the registrar is authoritative where the two disagree. How records are assembled.

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