Registered charity

Supporting Women's Alternatives Network (swan Vancouver) Society

Legal name on the register: SUPPORTING WOMEN'S ALTERNATIVES NETWORK (SWAN VANCOUVER) SOCIETY

CA-E-HGRN-346YFormerBritish ColumbiaCanada (federal)Vancouver3 independent sources

On the record

Identifier: CA-E-HGRN-346Y
Address: 325 - 1101 SEYMOUR ST, VANCOUVER, BC, V6B 0R1
Earliest record: September 1, 2016
Also known as: SWAN Vancouver

Identifiers held

Charity registration: 853176295RR0001
Business number: 137582235
Business number: 853176295
Vancouver licence: 4495386
Vancouver licence: 4642927
Vancouver licence: 4860611
Vancouver licence no.: 24-113778
Vancouver licence no.: 25-135204
Vancouver licence no.: 26-138027

Registrations

Registrar	Instrument	Number	Registered	Status
Canada Revenue Agency	Registered charity	853176295RR0001	—	Registered

Municipal licences (3)

Place	Category	Number	First issued	Status
Vancouver	Association or Society	4495386	November 23, 2023	Issued
Vancouver	Association or Society	4642927	November 25, 2024	Issued
Vancouver	Association or Society	4860611	November 17, 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 (7)

Name	Position	Serving since	Status
Melody Wise	Director	September 23, 2023	current
Kristina Corpin-Moser	Director	September 23, 2023	current
Mindy Abramowitz	Chair and Co-Treasurer	October 1, 2022	current
Huijia Yang	Co-Treasurer	October 1, 2022	current
Bronwyn McBride	Secretary	October 1, 2022	current
Stephanie Sia	Director	October 1, 2022	current
Jane Li	Vice-chair	October 1, 2022	ended February 19, 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.

Public money on record

Federal grants and contributions

$3,793,160

across 10 agreements, 2016–2024

2016$152K

2018$7K

2019$425K

2020$15K

2021$875K

2022$10K

2023$8K

2024$2.3M

Paying institution	Awards	Value
Women and Gender Equality Canada	4	$1,875,560
Federal Economic Development Agency for Northern Ontario	1	$1,725,600
Department of Justice Canada	5	$192,000

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.

Timeline

November 17, 2025Licence first issued — Association or Society
November 25, 2024Licence first issued — Association or Society
June 3, 2024Federal grant — Women and Gender Equality Canada$575,560
April 1, 2024Federal grant — Federal Economic Development Agency for Northern Ontario$1,725,600
November 23, 2023Licence first issued — Association or Society
April 1, 2023Federal grant — Department of Justice Canada$8,000
April 1, 2022Federal grant — Department of Justice Canada$10,000
October 1, 2021Federal grant — Women and Gender Equality Canada$375,000
March 1, 2021Federal grant — Women and Gender Equality Canada$500,000
April 1, 2020Federal grant — Department of Justice Canada$15,000
May 31, 2019Federal grant — Women and Gender Equality Canada$425,000
April 1, 2018Federal grant — Department of Justice Canada$7,000
September 1, 2016Federal grant — Department of Justice Canada$152,000

Why this is one record

4 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 V6B 0R1
asserted by Canada Revenue Agency and City of Vancouver
Same name and address — 1101 seymour, 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

Registered charities — directors and officers (2024 returns)
Canada Revenue Agency · Open Government Licence – Canada
Registered charities — identification (2024 returns)
Canada Revenue Agency · Open Government Licence – Canada
Proactive disclosure — federal grants and contributions
Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat · Open Government Licence – Canada
Vancouver business licences
City of Vancouver · Open Government Licence – Vancouver

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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