Fort Victoria Historical Society
Charitable organization · Sidney, British Columbia · BN 845496207RR0001 · Educational Organizations Not Elsewhere Categorized · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($5,075) as filed with the CRA.
Fort Victoria Historical Society is a charitable organization based in Sidney, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under educational organizations not elsewhere categorized. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $3,750 in revenue and $5,075 in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 20% from donations, 67% from other charities.
Compared with 3,624 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 74% of peers.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $10K in 2021, the largest being $10K to Victoria Highland Games Association. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $15K in 2020 to $3,750 in 2024.
In its own words
Advancing education by providing tuition to youth on highland bagpipe music and highland drumming. Advancing the public's appreciation of the arts by providing high-quality performances in the public places of highland bagpipe music and highland drumming. Protecting and preserving historic bastion square in the city of victoria bc and other significant sites associated with old fort victoria by commemorating such historic sites and educating the public about them. Advancing the knowledge of the public in the capital regional district and elsewhere in british columbia of the historic sig…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3,750 | $5,075 | $5,025 | — | — | $8,833 |
| 2023 | $2,160 | $3,306 | $3,276 | — | — | $10K |
| 2022 | $160 | $3,212 | $65 | — | — | $11K |
| 2021 | $3,325 | $12K | $1,914 | — | $10K | $14K |
| 2020 | $15K | $5,598 | — | — | — | $23K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2021
Granted $10K to 1 qualified donee:
- Victoria Highland Games Association$10K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Total compensation, all staff$1,680
Schedule 3 of its 2020 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Fort Victoria Historical Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 845496207RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.