Birthing Families Foundation
Publicly funded institution · Salt Spring Island, British Columbia · BN 857948731RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($118,096) as filed with the CRA.
Birthing Families Foundation is a charitable organization based in Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under teaching institutions. It appears on the charity register the way hospitals, universities, and other publicly funded bodies do — to issue tax receipts — rather than as a donation-driven charity in the usual sense. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $113K in revenue and $118K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 42% from donations, 57% from other charities. In 2024, 5 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $32K.
Compared with 1,540 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 70% of peers.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $2,126 in 2020 to $113K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Birthing families foundation mission is to fund facilitate and carry out activities and programs which support birthing families. Bff programs serve the birthing and breastfeeding community with objectives to reduce health disparities for low income marginalized racialized and oppressed populations and for those encountering disability family violence and/or addiction. Our goal is to offer programs for families by way of; doula support breast feeding support counselling and food and to fil the gaps in our system. This is in alignment with the american college of obgyns recommendation t…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $113K | $118K | $110K | — | — | $8,709 |
| 2023 | $147K | $147K | $142K | — | — | $14K |
| 2022 | $77K | $77K | $71K | — | — | $14K |
| 2021 | $140K | $126K | $113K | — | — | $14K |
| 2020 | $2,126 | $2,106 | $2,106 | — | — | $20 |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $32K from 5 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Total compensation, all staff$11K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Allison Runnalls (chair); Alana Lundington (secretary); Madison Ann Greggains (treasurer); Melissa Forsyth (at large); Clover Halperin (outreach coordinato); Cindy Jaswal (research coordinator); Amy Jefferson (fundraising coordinato); Janice LIM Hing (at large); Sarah McCabe (volunteer coorinator).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Birthing Families Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 857948731RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.