Georgia Strait Alliance
Charitable organization · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 139942254RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($989,083) as filed with the CRA.
Georgia Strait Alliance is a charitable organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $906K in revenue and $989K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 31% from donations, 13% from government, 24% from other charities. In 2024, 13 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $317K.
Compared with 730 community-service charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 25% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 8 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Public Engagement – increasing the understanding of the importance of the health of Georgia Strait as a regional ecosystem and providing individuals and communities with the tools to take local and regional action to improve the health of the Strait and understand what threatens it. Biodiversity – promoting solutions to threats to at-risk species in the region and their habitats with a current focus on increasing regional oversight and protection of biodiversity increasing protection for Southern Resident orcas and advocating for the protection of wild salmon. Energy – improving oil spill …
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $906K | $989K | $689K | $79K | — | $201K |
| 2023 | $854K | $950K | $751K | $56K | — | $231K |
| 2022 | $912K | $890K | $677K | $55K | — | $307K |
| 2021 | $872K | $746K | $551K | $51K | — | $227K |
| 2020 | $981K | $807K | $631K | $40K | — | $147K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $317K from 13 charities:
- Aqueduct Foundation$78K
- The Sitka Foundation$75K
- Eden Conservation Trust$50K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$30K
- Vancouver Foundation$24K
- The Victoria Foundation$20K
- DR. Ann Worth Charitable Foundation$20K
- Glasswaters Foundation$10K
- Canadahelps Canadon$6,577
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$2,064
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$1,000
- BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust$472
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$184
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$688K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Kristin Street (chair); Sheldon Fernandes (treasurer); Siobhan Powlowski (director); Gabrielle Savage (director); Mairin Shields Brown (director); Andrew Calhoun Beers (director); Ilesha Madhu Maharaj (director); Nadine Ryan (director); Jennifer Thornton (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Georgia Strait Alliance’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 139942254RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.