Plant a Seed & See What Grows Foundation
Charitable organization · Burnaby, British Columbia · BN 806222832RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-05-31. Split of total expenditures ($548,413) as filed with the CRA.
Plant a Seed & See What Grows Foundation is a charitable organization based in Burnaby, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending May 31, 2024, it reported $517K in revenue and $548K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 100% from donations. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $24.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 32% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 93% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 1 permanent full-time position.
It reported gifts to 27 qualified donees totalling $59K in 2024, the largest being $6,000 to Farm to Cafeteria Canada Society. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $197K in 2020 to $517K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
A) to advance education by providing publicly available scholarships to fulltime students enrolled in a post-secondary botany and/or plant sciences or preventative healthcare and/or health promotion education program; b) to receive and maintain a funds and to apply all or part of the principal and income therefrom from time to time to qualified donees as defined in the income tax act (canada); and c) to undertake activities ancillary and incidental to the attainment of the aboce purposes.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $517K | $548K | $362K | $3,451 | $60K | $1.6M |
| 2023 | $278K | $303K | $137K | $3,803 | $25K | $1.6M |
| 2022 | $318K | $310K | $158K | $3,641 | $9,250 | $1.6M |
| 2021 | $261K | $285K | $59K | $3,719 | $24K | $1.6M |
| 2020 | $197K | $251K | $28K | $3,392 | $13K | $960K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $59K to 27 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Farm to Cafeteria Canada Society$6,000
- ST. John's-Kilmarnock School Foundation$5,000
- Maple Ridge/pitt Meadows Community Services$5,000
- Proton Foundation$3,515
- The Board of Education of School District No. 73 (Kamloops-Thompson)$3,000
- The Board of Education of School District No. 57 (Prince George)$3,000
- The Board of Education of School District No. 36 (Surrey)$3,000
- The Board of Education of School District No. 44 (North Vancouver)$3,000
- Contigo International Inc$3,000
- Chignecto-Central Regional Centre for Education$3,000
- The Board of Education of School District No. 68 (Nanaimo-Ladysmith)$3,000
- The Board of Education of School District No. 44 (North Vancouver)$2,500
- Disabled Independent Gardeners Association$2,500
- Louis Riel School Division Trust Fund$2,000
- The Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine$2,000
- The Seven Oaks School Division$1,000
- Vancouver Sun Children's Fund Society$1,000
- The University of British Columbia$1,000
- The University of British Columbia$1,000
- Breakfast Club of Canada$1,000
- Seeds of Diversity Canada$1,000
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University Foundation$1,000
- The Durham College Foundation$1,000
- Carlton Place and District Youth Centre$300
- The Board of Trustees of the Red Deer Public School District No. 104$250
Received $24 from 1 charity:
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
- Permanent full-time positions1
- Total compensation, all staff$140K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Dennis Charland (executive director); Roland Gahler (president); Michael Hobson (treasurer vp); Veronica Kacinik (director); Priya Manjoo (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Plant a Seed & See What Grows Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 806222832RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.