Nourish Cowichan Society
Publicly funded institution · Duncan, British Columbia · BN 737977926RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-07-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,309,123) as filed with the CRA.
Nourish Cowichan Society is a charitable organization based in Duncan, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. 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 July 31, 2024, it reported $1.3M in revenue and $1.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 19% from donations, 57% from government, 20% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 25 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $544K.
Compared with 1,618 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 30% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 3 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $605K in 2020 to $1.3M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
Nourish cowichan is a society that provides nutritious food to school children of the cowichan valley supporting them in reaching their full potential. The starfish backpack program run by rotarians joined the society as a new program in the summer of 2017. It supplies food to school children on friday afternoons for over the weekend.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.3M | $1.3M | $1.1M | $88K | — | $350K |
| 2023 | $945K | $945K | $848K | $29K | — | $350K |
| 2022 | $687K | $686K | $652K | $15K | — | $350K |
| 2021 | $472K | $448K | $525K | $11K | — | $350K |
| 2020 | $605K | $605K | $585K | $5,162 | — | $325K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $544K from 25 charities:
- Nanaimo Community Foundation$180K
- Canadahelps Canadon$92K
- Canadahelps Canadon$92K
- Loaves and Fishes Community Food Bank Society$47K
- Cowichan Valley Basket Society$35K
- Sovereign Order of ST. John Victoria Commandery Foundation$30K
- Allen & Loreen Van de Kerk Hove Family Foundation$15K
- Right To Food$10K
- Vancouver Foundation$10K
- Aqueduct Foundation$9,500
- Equilibrium Foundation$6,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$5,471
- Mazon Canada$3,300
- The Victoria Foundation$2,000
- Crofton Community Centre Society$1,000
- Chemainus Health CARE Auxiliary$1,000
- BenefAction Foundation$1,000
- Doane Grant Thornton Foundation$700
- BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust$508
- Christian Science Society Duncan$500
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$403
- Solo Deo Monastery$300
- Sylvan Pastoral Charge$300
- The Anglican Parish of St. Peter Quamichan$55
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$24
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
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions3
- Total compensation, all staff$251K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Loreen John (treasurer); Darcy Grobe (director); Rod Allen (president); Denise Augustine (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Nourish Cowichan Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 737977926RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.