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Blind Beginnings Society

Legal name on the register: BLIND BEGINNINGS SOCIETY

CA-E-6JAJ-X4SZFormerBritish ColumbiaCanada (federal)Vancouver3 independent sources
$625KRevenue reported
$204KPublic money on record
13On the board
2Organisations connected
2Municipal licences
9Employees reported
3Independent publishers
90/100Evidence depth
October 15, 2026Latest source capture
On the record
Identifier
CA-E-6JAJ-X4SZ
Address
2411 PENDER ST E, VANCOUVER, BC, V5K 2B2
Earliest record
April 23, 2019
Identifiers held
Charity registration
813290616RR0001
Business number
813290616
Vancouver licence
4722036
Vancouver licence
4860834
Vancouver licence no.
25-198586
Vancouver licence no.
26-138250
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Evidence depth
90/100
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: 2 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
90
Operationslicences and operating places
42
Filed disclosurepublic financials and workforce
100
Public moneycontracts, grants and contribution records
39
Public activitypermits and recorded work
0
Relationshipsfiled board and identifier-linked organisations
72
Regulatorydecided public findings
0
Historydated span and recorded events
55

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
RegistrarInstrumentNumberRegisteredStatus
Canada Revenue AgencyRegistered charity813290616RR0001—Registered
Municipal licences (2)
PlaceCategoryNumberFirst issuedStatus
VancouverAssociation or Society4722036September 10, 2025Issued
VancouverAssociation or Society4860834November 29, 2025Issued

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 (13)
NamePositionServing sinceStatus
Jugaad SinghYouth RepresentativeJune 15, 2024current
Rob SleathMember at LargeJune 15, 2024current
Jordan PodealukSecretaryJune 17, 2023current
Shawna LawsonPresidentJune 17, 2023current
Peter MoroneyMember at LargeJune 17, 2023current
Leesa SchurmanMember at LargeJune 17, 2023current
Tamara KroppTreasurerJune 25, 2022current
Fernando MerinoMember at LargeJune 25, 2022current
Amit GatenyoMember at LargeJune 19, 2021current
Kathie JohnsonVice PresidentSeptember 7, 2019current
Acacia CousinsYouth RepresentitiveJune 17, 2023ended June 15, 2024
Louise McDonaldMember at LargeJune 25, 2022ended June 15, 2024
Richard MarionPast PresidentSeptember 7, 2019ended June 15, 2024

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 (2)

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.

OrganisationKindNames in common
Firefighters' Burn Fund Victoria B.C.
CA-E-YSP9-T0ZZ
Registered charity1
Richmond Centre For Disability
CA-E-1PFF-NHV2
Registered charity1
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 December 31, 2024
Total revenue
$624,779
Total spending
$706,635
Total assets
$285,259
Total liabilities
$85,693
Receipted donations
$45,824
From other charities
$158,095
Granted onward
$0
Charitable programs79.8% · $564K · line 5000
Management and administration10.3% · $73K · line 5010
Fundraising9.9% · $70K · line 5020
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.
Public money on record
Federal grants and contributions
$203,781

across 2 agreements, 2019–2025

2019$4K
2025$200K
Paying institutionAwardsValue
Employment and Social Development Canada2$203,781
Value as published, not money paid. The federal contract value field includes the ceiling of standing offers and supply arrangements — purchasing capacity a department may never draw on. A large figure here can mean a large ceiling rather than a large payment.

Awards are attached to this record only where the evidence identifies exactly one organisation: a name and postal area that narrow to a single company, or a name unique across the whole national corpus. Proactive publication truncates the vendor postal code to three characters, so anything that could belong to more than one company is left unattached rather than guessed at. Totals are a floor in that direction. The full rules.
What it does
Licensed as
Association or Society
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.
Timeline
  1. Licence first issued — Association or Society
  2. Licence first issued — Association or Society
  3. Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$200,000
  4. Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$3,781
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 V5K 2B2
    asserted by Canada Revenue Agency and City of Vancouver
  • Same name and address — 2411 e pender, vancouver, BC
    asserted by 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
DatasetLast capturedCadenceCoverage keptHealth
Registered charities — directors and officers (2024 returns)
Canada Revenue Agency · Open Government Licence – Canada
September 2, 2026P1Y1 captures · 0 comparisonscurrent
Registered charities — financial data (2024 returns)
Canada Revenue Agency · Open Government Licence – Canada
September 5, 2026P1Y1 captures · 0 comparisonscurrent
Registered charities — identification (2024 returns)
Canada Revenue Agency · Open Government Licence – Canada
September 8, 2026P1Y2 captures · 1 comparisonscurrent
Proactive disclosure — federal grants and contributions
Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat · Open Government Licence – Canada
September 3, 2026P3M1 captures · 0 comparisonscurrent
Vancouver business licences
City of Vancouver · Open Government Licence – Vancouver
October 15, 2026P1M3 captures · 1 comparisonscurrent
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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