Fresh Roots Urban Farm Society
Charitable organization · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 844249680RR0001 · Support of Schools and Education · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,038,231) as filed with the CRA.
Fresh Roots Urban Farm Society is a charitable organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under support of schools and education. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1M in revenue and $1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 10% from donations, 49% from government, 7% from other charities. In 2024, 13 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $143K.
Compared with 632 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 82% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 8 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $136K in 2024, the largest being $136K to Growing Chefs Society.
In its own words
Good Food For All! Fresh Roots works towards ensuring that everyone has access to healthy land food and community. We do that through our three program pillars: Good Food (Poverty Alleviation) Experiential Learning (Education) and Youth Empowerment (Leadership Development). Good Food: Fresh Roots grows fresh food for the school and surrounding community. We train young people in agriculture to learn how to grow and share the food they grow thus ensuring that they have access to healthy food particularly when they do not have access to it at home or through other means. Experiential Learni…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1M | $1M | $866K | $41K | $136K | $25K |
| 2023 | $916K | $900K | $775K | $22K | — | $60K |
| 2022 | $994K | $994K | $841K | $74K | — | $44K |
| 2021 | $1.1M | $1.2M | $979K | $87K | — | $44K |
| 2020 | $1.1M | $1.1M | $975K | $45K | $0 | $240K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $136K to 1 qualified donee:
Received $143K from 13 charities:
- The Houssian Foundation$40K
- BenefAction Foundation$27K
- RBC Foundation$25K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$23K
- TD Friends of the Environment Foundation$7,600
- B.C. Social Venture Partners Foundation$5,550
- The Peterborough K. M. Hunter Charitable Foundation$5,000
- Louis Family Foundation$5,000
- Canadahelps Canadon$2,588
- Ike Nizam Foundation of Canada$1,500
- Blue Planet Links$500
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$433
- Vancity Community Foundation$100
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
- $40,000–79,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions8
- Total compensation, all staff$695K
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 Fresh Roots Urban Farm Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 844249680RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.