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)Vancouver4 independent sources

$730KRevenue reported

$2.1MPublic money on record

7On the board

2Organisations connected

3Municipal licences

10Employees reported

4Independent publishers

97/100Evidence depth

October 15, 2026Latest source capture

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: 853176295
odbus-licence: City of Vancouver:22-113548
statcan-odbus: 010392df904de703b3f3
Vancouver licence: 4495386
Vancouver licence: 4642927
Vancouver licence: 4860611
Vancouver licence no.: 24-113778
Vancouver licence no.: 25-135204
Vancouver licence no.: 26-138027

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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: 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

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	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.

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.

Organisation	Kind	Names in common
Living In Community Society CA-E-AVX4-D1F2	Registered charity	1
Smh Comedy Society CA-E-VJT8-AAH0	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: $730,118
Total spending: $818,480
Total assets: $210,814
Total liabilities: $72,244

Receipted donations: $50,311
From other charities: $155,511

Charitable programs94.5% · $773K · line 5000

Management and administration5.5% · $45K · 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

$2,067,560

across 9 agreements, 2016–2024

2016$152K

2018$7K

2019$425K

2020$15K

2021$875K

2022$10K

2023$8K

2024$576K

Paying institution	Awards	Value
Women and Gender Equality Canada	4	$1,875,560
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.

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 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
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

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 V6B 0R1
asserted by Canada Revenue Agency and Statistics Canada and City of Vancouver
Same name and address — 1101 seymour, 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
Proactive disclosure — federal grants and contributions Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat · Open Government Licence – Canada	September 3, 2026	P3M	1 captures · 0 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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