Cumberland Community Forest Society
Charitable organization · Cumberland, British Columbia · BN 888950219RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-10-31. Split of total expenditures ($363,114) as filed with the CRA.
Cumberland Community Forest Society is a charitable organization based in Cumberland, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. In its fiscal year ending October 31, 2024, it reported $657K in revenue and $363K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 37% from donations, 15% from government, 5% from other charities. In 2024, 10 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $98K.
Compared with 730 community-service charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 23% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group.
Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $1.3M in 2020 to $657K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
Trail maintenance guided tours public information booths fundraising for future purchases of lands to be donated back to the community inventory of sensitive flora/fauna including online mapping available to the public
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $657K | $363K | $246K | $72K | — | $2.5M |
| 2023 | $1.5M | $216K | $122K | $61K | — | $2.2M |
| 2022 | $370K | $177K | $85K | $55K | — | $895K |
| 2021 | $455K | $113K | $56K | $26K | — | $701K |
| 2020 | $1.3M | $2.4M | $98K | $31K | $2.2M | $359K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $98K from 10 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$38K
- Canadahelps Canadon$38K
- Comox Valley Community Foundation$9,373
- The Calgary Foundation$5,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$3,571
- BenefAction Foundation$2,500
- The Victoria Foundation$1,000
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$1,000
- BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust$381
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$19
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jason Ross (vice chair); John Gower (director); Lisa Levesque (vice chair); Annabelle Sproule (director); Shawn Gabel (chair); Jason Straka (director); Kerri Brownie (secretary); Sarah Falloon (director); Catherine Worthy (treasurer); Alix Wilson (director); Vanessa Corby (director); Sean Carberry (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Cumberland Community Forest Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 888950219RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.