Creston Valley Gleaners Society
Charitable organization · Creston, British Columbia · BN 118879501RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-10-31. Split of total expenditures ($785,586) as filed with the CRA.
Creston Valley Gleaners Society is a charitable organization based in Creston, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending October 31, 2024, it reported $875K in revenue and $786K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 13% from donations, 9% from government, 6% from other charities. In 2024, 9 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $171K.
Compared with 2,470 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 17% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 90% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 7 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 8 qualified donees totalling $100K in 2024, the largest being $42K to Creston Valley Ministerial Association. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $493K in 2020 to $875K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Operating food bank contributing to day care lunches and school breakfast programs providing support to elderly awording annual education bursaries. Society's charitable activities are funded through donations and sale revenues of two thrift stores.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $875K | $786K | $341K | $140K | $162K | $1.9M |
| 2023 | $738K | $665K | $391K | — | $143K | $1.8M |
| 2022 | $614K | $508K | $338K | — | $94K | $1.7M |
| 2021 | $633K | $463K | $292K | — | $92K | $1.6M |
| 2020 | $493K | $423K | $224K | — | $28K | $1.4M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $100K to 8 qualified donees:
- Creston Valley Ministerial Association$42K
- Valley Community Services Society$30K
- Angel Flight East Kootenay$10K
- Cresteramics Society for the Handicapped$6,500
- Creston Concert Society$5,000
- Creston Valley Society for Therapeutic Horsemanship$3,000
- Boswell Memorial Hall Society$3,000
- Options for Sexual Health$710
Received $171K from 9 charities:
- Central Okanagan Community Foodbank Society$59K
- Food Banks British Columbia$52K
- Canadahelps Canadon$24K
- Canadahelps Canadon$24K
- The Canfor Good Things Come From Trees Foundation$5,900
- Food Banks Canada/Banques Alimentaires Canada$4,471
- The Canfor Good Things Come From Trees Foundation$1,000
- The Western Communities Foundation$789
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$10
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- $1–39,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions7
- Total compensation, all staff$260K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Lane Hutton (vice president); Rosanne Watt (secretary); Don Sciog (director); Alice Van Dusen (director); Lynda Stewart (president); Brenda Draper-Hanley (director); Ruth McLeod (treasurer); Steve Schaan (director); Tracy Floer (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Creston Valley Gleaners Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118879501RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.