Master Gardeners Association of B.C.
Publicly funded institution · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 856685482RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($98,635) as filed with the CRA.
Master Gardeners Association of B.C. is a charitable organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under teaching institutions. 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 June 30, 2024, it reported $98K in revenue and $99K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 70% from donations. In 2023, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $581.
Compared with 673 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 4% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 82% of that peer group.
In its own words
Volunteer members conduct and support public clinics and workshops at garden centres plant sales farmers markets school programs for kids and horticulture therapy programs at care homes and hospices - members also write articles for mgabc website local newsletters and respond to gardening questions from the public.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $98K | $99K | $1,675 | $1,523 | $5,300 | $149K |
| 2023 | $104K | $77K | — | — | $5,650 | $130K |
| 2022 | $80K | $62K | $571 | — | — | $149K |
| 2021 | $133K | $67K | $2,219 | $4,903 | $9,200 | $147K |
| 2020 | $88K | $110K | $708 | $1,731 | $4,428 | $102K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2023
Received $581 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Master Gardeners Association of B.C.’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 856685482RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.