Pender Islands Conservancy Association
Publicly funded institution · Pender Island, British Columbia · BN 887391068RR0001 · Public Amenities · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($393,231) as filed with the CRA.
Pender Islands Conservancy Association is a charitable organization based in Pender Island, 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 $2.6M in revenue and $393K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 9% from donations, 62% from government, 22% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 9 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $904K.
Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. None of its ten highest-paid positions cleared $40,000. The charity reported 5 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $136K in 2020 to $2.6M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
1. Manage & monitor various programs: medicine beach wetland & hillside forage fish habitat & salmon streams; eagles and other raptors; purple martin and monitor other birds 2. Encourage and monitor land covenants 3. Public education and study programs to promote the pender islands 4. Organize workshops lectures and clean-up efforts for beaches and removal of broom & thistles
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.6M | $393K | — | — | — | $4.1M |
| 2023 | $290K | $276K | $268K | — | — | $1.9M |
| 2022 | $1.3M | $234K | $227K | — | — | $1.9M |
| 2021 | $235K | $133K | $131K | — | — | $875K |
| 2020 | $136K | $38K | $34K | — | — | $721K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $904K from 9 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$425K
- Canadahelps Canadon$425K
- The Victoria Foundation$42K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$7,500
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$2,500
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$676
- UniPHARM & Medicine Centre Pharmacies Charitable Foundation$250
- BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust$98
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$24
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $1–39,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions5
- Total compensation, all staff$135K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Dan Baxter (vice president/treasurer); Ron Bertrand (director); Elizabeth Miles (president); Bob Simons (director); Robert Vergette (director); Don Peden (director); Ralph Dawson (secretary-treasurer); Julie Szabo (director); Pamela Wright (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Pender Islands Conservancy Association’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 887391068RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.