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Registered charity

The Immigrant Services Society Of British Columbia

Legal name on the register: THE IMMIGRANT SERVICES SOCIETY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA

CA-E-A7Z3-9NWRFormerBritish ColumbiaCanada (federal)Vancouver4 independent sources
$55.4MRevenue reported
$291.5MPublic money on record
16On the board
9Organisations connected
9Municipal licences
0Employees reported
4Independent publishers
97/100Evidence depth
October 15, 2026Latest source capture
On the record
Identifier
CA-E-A7Z3-9NWR
Address
2610 VICTORIA DR, VANCOUVER, BC, V5N 4L2
Earliest record
January 4, 2017
Also known as
ISSofBC · The Immigrant Services Society of British Columbia|The Immigrant Services Society of British Columbia · The Immigrant Services Society of British Columbia | The Immigrant Services Society of British Columbia
Identifiers held
Charity registration
130724222RR0001
Business number
130724222
odbus-licence
City of Vancouver:22-113498
odbus-licence
City of Vancouver:22-116787
odbus-licence
City of Vancouver:22-131394
statcan-odbus
086be83e04be77132ac3
statcan-odbus
326b0f2c212590dc2125
statcan-odbus
f2440633a6ecd0bef078
Vancouver licence
4495345
Vancouver licence
4498302
Vancouver licence
4513183
Vancouver licence
4617799
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Evidence depth
97/100
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: 9 organisation connections · 4 same-address neighbours.

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
55
Filed disclosurepublic financials and workforce
100
Public moneycontracts, grants and contribution records
73
Public activitypermits and recorded work
0
Relationshipsfiled board and identifier-linked organisations
75
Regulatorydecided public findings
0
Historydated span and recorded events
82

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 charity130724222RR0001—Registered
Municipal licences (9)
PlaceCategoryNumberFirst issuedStatus
VancouverLong-term Rental4513183November 22, 2023Issued
VancouverAssociation or Society4495345November 22, 2023Issued
VancouverArts and Creative Instruction4498302November 22, 2023Issued
VancouverLong-term Rental4638156November 19, 2024Issued
VancouverAssociation or Society4642887November 19, 2024Issued
VancouverArts and Creative Instruction4617799November 19, 2024Issued
VancouverLong-term Rental4854683November 17, 2025Issued
VancouverArts and Creative Instruction4833489November 17, 2025Issued
VancouverAssociation or Society4860572November 17, 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 (16)
NamePositionServing sinceStatus
Craig StockingTreasurerOctober 1, 2023ended September 30, 2024
Lida PaslarMember-At-LargeOctober 1, 2023ended September 30, 2024
Noah SedkyDirectorOctober 1, 2023ended September 30, 2024
Sohail NazariDirectorOctober 1, 2023ended September 30, 2024
Krista ThompsonVice ChairOctober 1, 2023ended September 30, 2024
Heather JuddSecretaryOctober 1, 2022ended September 30, 2024
Joanna StarczynowskiDirectorOctober 1, 2022ended September 30, 2024
Jennifer NatlandPast Board ChairOctober 1, 2022ended September 30, 2024
Abdullah AbunafeesaDirectorOctober 1, 2022ended September 30, 2024
Alec AttfieldChairOctober 1, 2022ended September 30, 2024
Lisa RichlenDirectorOctober 1, 2022ended September 30, 2024
Jordan SimmonsDirectorOctober 1, 2022ended September 30, 2024
Taruna GoelVice-PresidentOctober 1, 2022ended September 30, 2023
Joeseph ChanSecretaryOctober 1, 2022ended September 30, 2023
Sasha RamnarineDirectorOctober 1, 2022ended September 30, 2023
Jack WongPast PresidentOctober 1, 2022ended September 30, 2023

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 (9)

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
Douglas College Foundation
CA-E-9FTX-1AWH
Registered charity1
Fraser Basin Council Society
CA-E-RKN6-3XW2
Registered charity1
Harriston Historical Society
CA-E-NJTG-1KJX
Registered charity1
Kwantlen Polytechnic University Foundation
CA-E-GTBQ-VKSD
Registered charity1
M. Kopernik (nicolaus Copernicus) Foundation
CA-E-WK2W-QEN1
Registered charity1
Royal Canadian Legion Cornwall (ontario No 297) Branch Popp
CA-E-68W2-EWSW
Registered charity1
St John's Evangelical Lutheran Church
CA-E-4K7C-GNCT
Registered charity1
Tessa Beauchamp Foundation Society
CA-E-Z82H-YFTZ
Registered charity1
The Longan Scholarship Foundation
CA-E-2FGE-H9WM
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.
At the same address (4)

Organisations that filed the same street address and suite as this one, 2610 VICTORIA DR.

OrganisationKind
1084564 BC Ltd
CA-E-7EAD-XMDD
Licensed business
Pacific Canada Heritage Centre - Museum Of Migration Society
CA-E-56ZT-TM4K
Registered charity
Vancouver Association For The Survivors Of Torture
CA-E-N1B2-PYYP
Registered charity
Vancouver Association of the Survivors of Torture (VAST)
CA-E-JZ7N-W8T9
Licensed business
A shared door is not always a shared purpose. Sharing an address can mean one organisation with several registered arms, a building a sector clusters in, or simply a landlord. It is a fact about where filings were sent, not a claim about who controls whom.

Addresses used here are only ones already published on these pages: where a single publisher asserts an address it is coarsened to a locality, because a registered office is very often somebody’s home. And where 25 or more organisations share one door — a registered agent or a law firm — no connection is drawn at all, because at that point the address describes the agent rather than the organisations. How address precision is decided.
What it raised and spent — year ended March 31, 2024
Total revenue
$55,410,016
Total spending
$55,351,694
Total assets
$33,752,855
Total liabilities
$17,449,118
Receipted donations
$202,702
From other charities
$1,085,608
Charitable programs87.5% · $48.5M · line 5000
Management and administration11.7% · $6.5M · line 5010
Not broken down in the return0.8% · $440K
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
$291,517,479

across 29 agreements, 2017–2025

2017$42.9M
2018$5.5M
2019$238K
2020$156.9M
2021$2.7M
2022$5.9M
2024$20K
2025$77.3M
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
Trade
Community Association · Esl Instruction · Esl Instruction - 18 And Over · Non-Profit Housing
Licensed as
Arts and Creative Instruction · Association or Society · Long-term Rental
Industry code
561490 · 61 · 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
  1. Licence first issued — Long-term Rental
  2. Licence first issued — Arts and Creative Instruction
  3. Licence first issued — Association or Society
  4. Federal grant — Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada$30,328,928
  5. Federal grant — Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada$26,670,380
  6. Federal grant — Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada$20,323,176
  7. Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$25,000
  8. Licence first issued — Long-term Rental
  9. Licence first issued — Association or Society
  10. Licence first issued — Arts and Creative Instruction
  11. Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$20,000
  12. Licence first issued — Long-term Rental
  13. Licence first issued — Association or Society
  14. Licence first issued — Arts and Creative Instruction
  15. Federal grant — Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada$507,703
  16. Federal grant — Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada$5,379,390
  17. Federal grant — Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada$1,123,575
  18. Federal grant — Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada$1,576,189
  19. Federal grant — Pacific Economic Development Canada$88,538
  20. Federal grant — Western Economic Diversification Canada$88,538
  21. Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$15,002,655
  22. Federal grant — Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada$25,805,966
  23. Federal grant — Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada$32,830,186
  24. Federal grant — Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada$73,776,299
  25. Federal grant — Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada$9,243,640
  26. Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$23,498
  27. Federal grant — Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada$238,189
  28. Federal grant — Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada$2,160,917
  29. Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$3,280,493
  30. Federal grant — Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada$91,364
  31. Federal grant — Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada$5,115,249
  32. Federal grant — Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada$2,740,840
  33. Federal grant — Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada$7,000,532
  34. Federal grant — Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada$11,333,451
  35. Federal grant — Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada$7,563,840
  36. Federal grant — Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada$6,455,255
  37. Federal grant — Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada$811,189
  38. Federal grant — Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada$1,912,499
Why this is one record

6 public datasets from 4 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 V5N 4L2
    asserted by Canada Revenue Agency and Statistics Canada and City of Vancouver
  • Same name and address — 2610 victoria, vancouver, BC
    asserted by Canada Revenue Agency and 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
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
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, 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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