Macdonald Wood Park Society
Publicly funded institution · Comox, British Columbia · BN 140716945RR0001 · Public Amenities · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,740) as filed with the CRA.
Macdonald Wood Park Society is a charitable organization based in Comox, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under public amenities. 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 December 31, 2024, it reported $1,876 in revenue and $1,740 in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 80% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $24.
Compared with 521 public-amenity institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 49% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
Stewardship education and maintenance for community recreation
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1,876 | $1,740 | $1,544 | — | — | $339K |
| 2022 | $190 | $2,688 | $1,505 | — | — | $338K |
| 2021 | $1,539 | $2,422 | $1,213 | — | — | $341K |
| 2020 | $1,573 | $3,907 | $1,622 | — | $500 | $343K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $24 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Diane Maxted (past president); Todd Wallace (co-president and secretary); Lorraine Aitken (co-president and treasurer); Martin Eschbaumer (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Macdonald Wood Park Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 140716945RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.