Salt Spring Island Conservancy
Charitable organization · Salt Spring Island, British Columbia · BN 890063977RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($596,941) as filed with the CRA.
Salt Spring Island Conservancy is a charitable organization based in Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $471K in revenue and $597K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 32% from donations, 22% from government. In 2024, 6 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $52K.
Compared with 730 community-service charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 23% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 3 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $500 in 2024, the largest being $500 to Transition Salt Spring Society. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $231K in 2020 to $471K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
1) conservation covenant program 2) stewardship program 3) education program 4) land management program 5) land acquisition 6) school program for elementary and middle school students 7) newsletter program-the acorn
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $471K | $597K | $402K | $27K | $500 | $12.8M |
| 2023 | $783K | $546K | $371K | $35K | $500 | $12.4M |
| 2022 | $584K | $456K | $306K | $29K | $500 | $12.1M |
| 2021 | $523K | $372K | $238K | $11K | — | $10M |
| 2020 | $231K | $308K | $194K | $9,249 | — | $9.8M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $500 to 1 qualified donee:
Received $52K from 6 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions3
- Total compensation, all staff$343K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Lionel Johnson (president); Gail Bryn-Jones (secretary); Michael Dragland (member at large); Pierre Mineau (vice president); Tara Martin (member at large); Alexandra Harris (member at large); James Hoggan (member at large); Richard Carlin (treasurer); Margery Moore (member at large).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Salt Spring Island Conservancy’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 890063977RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.