Registered charity

Vancouver Chinese Alliance Church

Legal name on the register: VANCOUVER CHINESE ALLIANCE CHURCH

CA-E-F9NE-DBJ8FormerBritish ColumbiaCanada (federal)Vancouver3 independent sources

$1.9MRevenue reported

$176KPublic money on record

9On the board

7Organisations connected

2Municipal licences

0Employees reported

3Independent publishers

93/100Evidence depth

October 15, 2026Latest source capture

On the record

Identifier: CA-E-F9NE-DBJ8
Address: 3330 KNIGHT ST, VANCOUVER, BC, V5N 3K8
Earliest record: May 9, 2008

Identifiers held

Charity registration: 108166463RR0001
Business number: 108166463
Vancouver licence: 4773204
Vancouver licence: 5001527
Vancouver licence no.: 25-248804
Vancouver licence no.: 26-256993

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Evidence depth

93/100

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: 7 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	108166463RR0001	—	Registered

Municipal licences (2)

Place	Category	Number	First issued	Status
Vancouver	Special Events	4773204	July 11, 2025	Issued
Vancouver	Special Events	5001527	July 21, 2026	Inactive

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 (9)

Name	Position	Serving since	Status
Norman Tong	CHAIRMAN	September 27, 2016	current
Lok Yin Chau	ELDER	April 1, 2024	ended March 31, 2026
Albert Shuen	TREASURER	April 1, 2023	ended March 31, 2025
C.t. Lam	ELDER	April 1, 2023	ended March 31, 2025
Robert James	VICE-CHAIRMAN	April 1, 2023	ended March 31, 2025
Kan Tsang	SECRETARY	April 1, 2022	ended March 31, 2025
Andrew Wong	ELDER	April 1, 2020	ended March 31, 2025
Gerald Yeung	ELDER	April 1, 2019	ended March 31, 2026
Paulona Ho	ELDER	April 1, 2019	ended March 31, 2026

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 (7)

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
2 Intelligence Company Senate CA-E-QWG3-XCF5	Registered charity	1
Alliance Global Serve Canada CA-E-7EZR-CWWP	Registered charity	1
Bradford Progress Child Care Centre INC CA-E-V779-2HM5	Registered charity	1
Chinese Presbyterian Church CA-E-TBDE-XGG8	Registered charity	1
La Corporation De La Communauté Catholique Chinoise De Montreal CA-E-Y069-Q8VG	Registered charity	1
Point Holmes Recreation Association CA-E-2SGN-XAWR	Registered charity	1
Toronto-richmond Hill Church Network CA-E-1VQS-N9RP	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 December 31, 2024

Total revenue: $1,855,672
Total spending: $1,061,473
Total assets: $6,361,008
Total liabilities: $31,558

Receipted donations: $1,456,364
Granted onward: $279,073

Charitable programs82.2% · $873K · line 5000

Management and administration17.8% · $189K · line 5010

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

$175,822

across 10 agreements, 2008–2025

2008$25K

2009$32K

2010$35K

2019$9K

2020$14K

2021$15K

2022$15K

2023$10K

2024$11K

2025$10K

Paying institution	Awards	Value
Employment and Social Development Canada	10	$175,822

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: Special Events

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

July 21, 2026Licence first issued — Special Events
July 11, 2025Licence first issued — Special Events
April 21, 2025Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$9,949
April 22, 2024Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$11,086
April 24, 2023Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$9,968
April 25, 2022Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$15,027
May 10, 2021Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$14,562
June 15, 2020Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$13,962
April 23, 2019Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$8,822
May 8, 2010Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$35,105
May 9, 2009Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$32,240
May 9, 2008Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$25,101

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 V5N 3K8
asserted by Canada Revenue Agency and City of Vancouver
Same name and address — 3330 knight, vancouver, BC
asserted by Canada Revenue Agency 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
Proactive disclosure — federal grants and contributions Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat · Open Government Licence – Canada	September 3, 2026	P3M	1 captures · 0 comparisons	current
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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