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Registered charity

Providence Health Care Society

Legal name on the register: PROVIDENCE HEALTH CARE SOCIETY

CA-E-QX15-7N0KCurrentBritish ColumbiaCanada (federal)Vancouver3 independent sources
$1.4BRevenue reported
$62.2MPublic money on record
15On the board
24Organisations connected
2Municipal licences
2Employees reported
3Independent publishers
93/100Evidence depth
October 15, 2026Latest source capture
On the record
Identifier
CA-E-QX15-7N0K
Address
1081 BURRARD ST, VANCOUVER, BC, V6Z 1Y6
Earliest record
June 10, 2015
Also known as
St. Paul's Hospital Gift Shop
Identifiers held
Charity registration
873465728RR0001
Business number
873465728
Vancouver licence
4766066
Vancouver licence
4873031
Vancouver licence no.
25-241827
Vancouver licence no.
26-150447
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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: 24 organisation connections · 5 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
42
Filed disclosurepublic financials and workforce
100
Public moneycontracts, grants and contribution records
78
Public activitypermits and recorded work
0
Relationshipsfiled board and identifier-linked organisations
74
Regulatorydecided public findings
0
Historydated span and recorded events
74

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 charity873465728RR0001—Registered
Municipal licences (2)
PlaceCategoryNumberFirst issuedStatus
VancouverRetail Dealer - Food4766066July 3, 2025Issued
VancouverRetail Dealer - Food4873031November 21, 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 (15)
NamePositionServing sinceStatus
Christopher LewisDIRECTORJanuary 26, 2022current
Karen KeiltyDIRECTORJune 23, 2021current
Judith LynamDIRECTORJune 23, 2021current
Ivor LukDIRECTORJune 23, 2020current
Michael KennedyDIRECTORSeptember 25, 2019current
Neysa FinnieDIRECTORJune 27, 2019current
Maria HarrisDIRECTORJune 27, 2019current
Kirk MitchellDIRECTORJune 27, 2019current
Robert AlloreDIRECTORJune 19, 2018current
Debra DoucetteDIRECTORJune 18, 2018current
Kate PerkinsDIRECTORJune 18, 2018current
Eric HarrisDIRECTOR/CHAIRJune 14, 2016current
Dermot KelleherDIRECTORJune 25, 2015current
Peter BullDIRECTORJune 10, 2015current
Nelson KwanDIRECTORJune 10, 2015current

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 (24)

2 of them share more than one name, which is a much stronger link than the rest. Those are listed first.

OrganisationKindNames in common
Providence Research Institute Trust
CA-E-GRB1-W8P2
Registered charity4
Providence Living Society
CA-E-Q3V9-6Y80
Registered charity2
A.s.t.c. Science World Society
CA-E-YK2C-JTDD
Registered charity1
Auxilia Foundation
CA-E-C6SS-9KWS
Registered charity1
Blenheim Foundation
CA-E-QY8H-3D7T
Registered charity1
Canadian Wheelchair Foundation / La Fondation De Chaise Roulante Canada
CA-E-ET4N-ETKN
Registered charity1
Cranberry Community Hall Association
CA-E-FMRM-EX0K
Registered charity1
Earhart Cultural Heritage Organization Inc.
CA-E-WX1B-6G24
Registered charity1
Equestrian Order Of The Holy Sepulchre Of Jerusalem Foundation (Lieutenancy Of Canada Vancouver)
CA-E-RC1J-RZB2
Registered charity1
Friends Of Churn Creek Protected Area Society
CA-E-4D2E-PQ6F
Registered charity1
Good Noise Vancouver Gospel Choir Society
CA-E-KQVJ-A6BQ
Registered charity1
Guelph Youth Music Centre
CA-E-HN4S-0VM5
Registered charity1
Homeward Foundation
CA-E-7T3C-95GT
Registered charity1
Jesuit Centre For Social Faith And Justice
CA-E-3BBM-5VSV
Registered charity1
London Spiritualist Church
CA-E-R7F6-VPK2
Registered charity1
Metro Baptist Church
CA-E-F6BJ-9VKF
Registered charity1
Roman Catholic Archbishop Of Vancouver
CA-E-R0HD-MM3G
Registered charity1
Rotary Club Of Semiahmoo (white Rock) B.C. Canada Charitable Trust
CA-E-D32Y-Q12G
Registered charity1
St John's Anglican Church
CA-E-BYMZ-V4AC
Registered charity1
St. Thomas More Collegiate Foundation
CA-E-HFYZ-BM85
Registered charity1
Substance. On s'informe. On en parle.
CA-E-P7SM-ZZ6R
Registered charity1
The Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada
CA-E-M95K-4PYX
Registered charity1
Ubc Alumni Association Educational Endowment Trust
CA-E-QMXR-NMVV
Registered charity1
Vancouver Opera Association
CA-E-82HG-YFQV
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 (5)

Organisations that filed the same street address and suite as this one, 1081 BURRARD ST.

OrganisationKind
Dr Jeffrey Pike Inc
CA-E-43XF-FKX3
Licensed business
Dr P Rahmani Gorji Inc
CA-E-S3E4-EPXR
Licensed business
Imperial Parking Canada Corporation
CA-E-TDX8-W9FZ
Licensed business
Mustafa Toma MD Inc
CA-E-SR0Y-S72Z
Licensed business
RBC Royal Bank Machine ATM Channel
CA-E-841M-9819
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
$1,442,266,000
Total spending
$1,440,586,650
Total assets
$2,201,281,000
Total liabilities
$2,295,082,000
From other charities
$29,862,348
Granted onward
$9,350
Charitable programs95.6% · $1.4B · line 5000
Management and administration4.4% · $63.0M · 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 contracts
$54,244

across 1 award, 2024–2024

Paying institutionAwardsValue
Public Health Agency of Canada1$54,244
Federal grants and contributions
$62,164,592

across 5 agreements, 2019–2026

2019$1.9M
2023$2.1M
2025$10.2M
2026$48.0M
Paying institutionAwardsValue
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada1$47,962,000
Health Canada3$14,016,092
Natural Resources Canada1$186,500
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
Retail Dealer - Food
Industry code
339900
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. Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$47,962,000
  2. Licence first issued — Retail Dealer - Food
  3. Licence first issued — Retail Dealer - Food
  4. Federal grant — Natural Resources Canada$186,500
  5. Federal grant — Health Canada$9,999,999
  6. Federal contract — Public Health Agency of Canada$54,244
  7. Federal grant — Health Canada$2,116,854
  8. Federal grant — Health Canada$1,899,239
Why this is one record

6 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 V6Z 1Y6
    asserted by Canada Revenue Agency and City of Vancouver
  • Same name and address — 1081 burrard, 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
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 publication — federal contracts over $10,000
Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat · Open Government Licence – Canada
September 1, 2026P3M1 captures · 0 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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