Farmfolk/cityfolk Society
Charitable organization · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 892231572RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($959,416) as filed with the CRA.
Farmfolk/cityfolk Society is a charitable organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1M in revenue and $959K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 16% from donations, 17% from government, 43% from other charities. In 2024, 15 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $248K.
Compared with 1,125 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 16% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 84% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 6 permanent full-time positions.
In its own words
FarmFolk CityFolk is British Columbia’s oldest and largest food and agriculture charity. We have been passionately committed to strengthening sustainable food systems where people and the planet thrive since 1993. We take a whole-of-food-systems approach with programs that go from seed to plate celebrating local food and connecting people with the farmers who grow and produce it. We connect collaborate and engage with farmers growers producers academics policymakers stakeholders chefs and eaters. Together we are cultivating food systems in BC that are strong sustainable equita…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1M | $959K | $456K | $101K | $223K | $362K |
| 2023 | $803K | $853K | $554K | $37K | $13K | $301K |
| 2022 | $903K | $880K | $589K | $47K | $36K | $351K |
| 2021 | $835K | $815K | $620K | $21K | $300 | $328K |
| 2020 | $725K | $643K | $509K | $18K | $3,908 | $308K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $248K from 15 charities:
- Endswell 2021 Foundation$78K
- The Catherine Donnelly Foundation$45K
- The Victoria Foundation$30K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$25K
- Vancouver Foundation$25K
- Vancity Community Foundation$21K
- Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal$10K
- Vancity Community Foundation$7,300
- Makeway Foundation$3,705
- Canadahelps Canadon$2,055
- Vancity Community Foundation$570
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$500
- Rotary Club of Semiahmoo (white Rock) B.C. Canada Charitable Trust$250
- Vancity Community Foundation$100
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$24
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
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- $1–39,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions6
- Total compensation, all staff$495K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Farmfolk/cityfolk Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 892231572RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.