Richmond Food Security Society
Publicly funded institution · Richmond, British Columbia · BN 816326094RR0001 · Support of Schools and Education · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($353,944) as filed with the CRA.
Richmond Food Security Society is a charitable organization based in Richmond, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under support of schools and education. 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 March 31, 2024, it reported $427K in revenue and $354K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 8% from donations, 64% from government, 10% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $3,272.
Compared with 1,540 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 62% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (3 positions in that band). The charity reported 5 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
Community garden - manages gardens in collaboration with the city of richmond kids in the garden - provides programming in the richmond school district around food literacy environmental education and healthy eating. Seed library - manages outgoing seed requests and organizes returned seeds for the following year. Train volunteer seed librarians to host tables at local public libraries. Fruit recovery - trains volunteer team to collect fruit from homeowners and redistribute the gleaned fruit to local npo's clients and members get rooted - works with underserved youth providing them safe …
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2021–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $427K | $354K | $321K | — | — | $265K |
| 2023 | $468K | $408K | $369K | — | — | $192K |
| 2022 | $431K | $365K | $345K | — | — | $132K |
| 2021 | $388K | $347K | $309K | — | — | $92K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $3,272 from 2 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- $1–39,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions5
- Total compensation, all staff$236K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Gerry Mulholland (director); Luther Sy (vice chair); Joanne Ha (director); Stephanie Fan (treasurer); Donna Kwan (director); Phil Carriere (chair); Erzsi Institorisz (director); Christine Middlemass (secretary).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Richmond Food Security Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 816326094RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.