Salt Spring Film Festival Society
Charitable organization · Salt Spring Island, British Columbia · BN 857491427RR0001 · Arts · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-07-31. Split of total expenditures ($100,636) as filed with the CRA.
Salt Spring Film Festival Society is a charitable organization based in Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under arts. In its fiscal year ending July 31, 2024, it reported $112K in revenue and $101K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 19% from government, 15% from other charities. In 2024, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $9,868.
Compared with 724 arts charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 22% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 94% of that peer group.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
In 2023-24 the Society was able to continue our usual program of a series of films over several months leading up to the week-end Film Festival in March. Starting in November we presented 6 films to an aggregate audience of over 1300. At our 3-day Festival we presented 37 documentary films plus 11 shorts to an aggregate audience of more than 2380. Of these films 18 have Canadian content or production. These events are made possible by the work of more than 100 volunteers giving hundreds of hours of their time to help set up the venue staff the Intermission Cafe sell admission ticke…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $112K | $101K | $62K | $6 | — | $42K |
| 2023 | $81K | $73K | $44K | — | $150 | $37K |
| 2022 | $44K | $63K | $34K | — | — | $29K |
| 2021 | $26K | $8,089 | $5,423 | — | — | $21K |
| 2020 | $80K | $82K | $44K | — | — | $24K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $9,868 from 2 charities:
- Salt Spring Island Foundation$8,862
- Canadahelps Canadon$1,006
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Katherine Gower (president); David Abbey (vice-president); Neil Martin (treasurer); E Leith Martin (director); Susan Sheane (director); Charlene Miller (director); Miriam Reid (director); Glynis Finer (director); Larisa Fry (director); Barbara Freitas (director); Michelle Sexton (secretary).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Salt Spring Film Festival Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 857491427RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.