Comox Valley Land Trust
Publicly funded institution · Courtenay, British Columbia · BN 872590278RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($254,394) as filed with the CRA.
Comox Valley Land Trust is a charitable organization based in Courtenay, 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 March 31, 2024, it reported $2.4M in revenue and $254K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 9% from donations, 86% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 11 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $690K.
Compared with 829 community-service institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 9% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $180K in 2020 to $2.4M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
The Comox Valley Land Trust has three programs: 1. Land Protection Program and 2. Comox Valley Conservation Partnership and 3. Conservation Science Program . The Land Protection Program protects and stewards lands of ecological significance within the Comox Valley through conservation covenants land donations land acquisitions and other means. The Conservation Partnership brings together 23 local stewardship groups to provide information to decision makers in support of environmental conversation initiatives. Conservation Science Program: Assists in the protection of species and ecosystems a…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.4M | $254K | $177K | $21K | $2,400 | $1.1M |
| 2023 | $5.3M | $5.4M | $3.3M | $4,208 | $1.9M | $1M |
| 2022 | $178K | $136K | $82K | $16K | — | $1.1M |
| 2021 | $329K | $148K | $82K | $32K | — | $1.1M |
| 2020 | $180K | $170K | $138K | $3,214 | — | $975K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $690K from 11 charities:
- The Sitka Foundation$200K
- The Christopher Foundation$200K
- BenefAction Foundation$90K
- Canadahelps Canadon$87K
- Canadahelps Canadon$87K
- Vancity Community Foundation$16K
- Vancouver Foundation$8,970
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$1,000
- BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust$431
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$271
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$124
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Michael Nihls (vice president); David Stapley (treasurer); Lesley Giroday (president); Nick Page (director); Janet Gemmell (secretary); Niel Turner (director); Jon Page (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Comox Valley Land Trust’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 872590278RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.