City Farmer Society
Publicly funded institution · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 130783681RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($155,317) as filed with the CRA.
City Farmer Society is a charitable organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. 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 $154K in revenue and $155K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 98% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $558.
Compared with 1,147 community-service institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 37% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $40,000–79,999 range. The charity reported 1 permanent full-time position.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
The society provides education programs throughout the year on urban agriculture. The society runs the regional compost hotline maintains vancouver's compost demonstration garden and publishes city farmer news on the web. The society teaches workshops to both kids and adults it conducts tours of our garden to a variety of visitors and we attend many media interviews each year. The society also speaks at public events and sets up information tables at community events. The society is building a climate change adaptation garden. Part of the garden is comprised of garden beds filled with c…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $154K | $155K | $126K | — | — | $74K |
| 2023 | $161K | $143K | $117K | — | — | $76K |
| 2022 | $138K | $147K | $121K | — | — | $58K |
| 2021 | $130K | $140K | $113K | — | — | $66K |
| 2020 | $142K | $128K | $102K | — | — | $75K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $558 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions1
- Total compensation, all staff$104K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Robert Woodsworth (director); Susan Gregory (director); Michael Levenston (executive director); Risa Smith (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from City Farmer Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 130783681RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.