Cowichan Green Community Foundation
Publicly funded institution · North Cowichan, British Columbia · BN 820121176RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($758,663) as filed with the CRA.
Cowichan Green Community Foundation is a charitable organization based in North Cowichan, 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 $581K in revenue and $759K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 23% from donations, 14% from government, 11% from other charities. In 2024, 9 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $73K.
Compared with 1,540 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 89% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 87% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $40,000–79,999 range. The charity reported 13 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
Food fit - promotes healthy eating exercise and self care in a group setting pregnacy connection - provides meat and egg coupons for expecting mothers meals on the ground provides meals to homeless and low income families and individuals kinsmen urban farm and garden - community gardens and education for school and youth groups meals on wheel healthy meals provided to seniors and delivered by volunteers refresh coup program - provides weekly food baskets to low income individuals elders garden - providing gardening opportunities to local seniors
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $581K | $759K | $751K | $1,607 | — | $626K |
| 2023 | $1.5M | $627K | $604K | $724 | — | $853K |
| 2022 | $503K | $552K | $494K | $4,047 | — | -$23K |
| 2021 | $451K | $440K | $395K | $3,192 | — | $37K |
| 2020 | $432K | $412K | $378K | $1,186 | — | $43K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $73K from 9 charities:
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
- $1–39,9999 positions
- Permanent full-time positions13
- Total compensation, all staff$423K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Stephen Bishop (president); Jane Nares (secretary); Amanda Vance (treasurer); Brent Wingham (director); Tina Reynold (director); Vivianne Allen (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Cowichan Green Community Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 820121176RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.