Living Lakes Canada Society
Publicly funded institution · Nelson, British Columbia · BN 727136327RR0001 · Environment
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-11-30. Split of total expenditures ($3,245,841) as filed with the CRA.
Living Lakes Canada Society is a charitable organization based in Nelson, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under environment. It appears on the charity register the way hospitals, universities, and other publicly funded bodies do — to issue tax receipts — rather than as a donation-driven charity in the usual sense. In its fiscal year ending November 30, 2024, it reported $3.2M in revenue and $3.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 5% from donations, 57% from government, 32% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 23 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $655K.
Compared with 28 environmental institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 11% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 88% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 31 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $982K in 2020 to $3.2M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
Columbia basin ground water monitoring columbia basin water data hub cabin & indigenous knowledge stream and dna metabarcoding foreshore inventory mapping healthy watersheds initiative national lake blitz watershed restoration program kootenay watershed science eastern slopes high elevation monitoring initiative itracckdna center of water excellence for youth indigenous partnership building
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.2M | $3.2M | $2M | $241K | — | $803K |
| 2023 | $547K | $551K | $417K | $31K | — | $824K |
| 2022 | $2.5M | $2M | $1.8M | $54K | — | $848K |
| 2021 | $1.3M | $1.3M | $886K | $262K | — | $372K |
| 2020 | $982K | $878K | $673K | $108K | — | $341K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $655K from 23 charities:
- RBC Foundation$250K
- Makeway Foundation$128K
- The Sitka Foundation$75K
- Weston Family Foundation$40K
- The Guelph Community Foundation$40K
- R. Howard Webster Foundation$30K
- TD Friends of the Environment Foundation$12K
- The British Columbia Conservation Foundation$10K
- Central Okanagan Foundation$10K
- Foord Family Foundation$10K
- Osprey Community Foundation$8,000
- Vancouver Foundation$7,200
- Nature Canada / Canada Nature$6,521
- F. K. Morrow Foundation$5,000
- Columbia Valley Community Foundation$5,000
- The Read Family Foundation$4,000
- Le Roi Community Foundation$3,000
- Canadahelps Canadon$2,582
- David Charitable Trust$2,500
- The Hamber Foundation$2,000
- Community Foundation of the Kootenay Rockies$2,000
- Kimberley & District Community Foundation$1,500
- Schein Foundation$1,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions31
- Total compensation, all staff$1.6M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jane Fleet (chairperson); Paul Bach (treasurer); Jeannette Theberge (secretary); Amanda McRobbie (director); Laura Bell (vice chairperson); Scott Meakin (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Living Lakes Canada Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 727136327RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.