Columbia Lake Stewardship Society
Publicly funded institution · Fairmont Hot Springs, British Columbia · BN 803451848RR0001 · Environment · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($60,463) as filed with the CRA.
Columbia Lake Stewardship Society is a charitable organization based in Fairmont Hot Springs, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under environment. 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 $63K in revenue and $60K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 10% from donations, 65% from government, 16% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 4 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $11K.
Compared with 28 environmental institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 23% of peers.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $18K in 2024, the largest being $18K to Lake Windermere Ambassadors Society. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
In the fiscal year the columbia lake stewardship society conducted programs on the protection of columbia lake sampling water from the lake and sending to lab in order to create a baseline in composition for monitoring for changes measuring and recording water quantity levels several times throughout the unfrozen season outreach to educate the public on water conservation and wetland protection habits - done by day camps for children in-school teaching sessions information booths newletters social media
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2021–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $63K | $60K | $18K | — | $18K | $9,541 |
| 2023 | $42K | $66K | $23K | — | — | $7,236 |
| 2022 | $65K | $68K | $39K | — | — | $31K |
| 2021 | $66K | $43K | $25K | — | — | $34K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $18K to 1 qualified donee:
Received $11K from 4 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Total compensation, all staff$28K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
J.tom Dance (director); Patricia Silver (treasurer); Thomas Symington (director); William Thompson (director); Nancy Wilson (chairperson); Rachel Milner (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Columbia Lake Stewardship Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 803451848RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.