Salt Spring Island Farmland Trust Society
Charitable organization · Salt Spring Island, British Columbia · BN 848383659RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($442,454) as filed with the CRA.
Salt Spring Island Farmland Trust Society 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 $502K in revenue and $442K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 34% from donations, 27% from government, 15% from other charities. In 2024, 8 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $316K.
Compared with 730 community-service charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 84% of peers. None of its ten highest-paid positions cleared $40,000. The charity reported 2 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $20K in 2020 to $502K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
Preserve farmland and maintain community farm create and operate community gardens
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $502K | $442K | $430K | — | — | $1.9M |
| 2023 | $350K | $300K | $294K | — | — | $1.4M |
| 2022 | $129K | $45K | $36K | — | — | $1.4M |
| 2021 | $64K | $74K | $71K | — | — | $1.3M |
| 2020 | $20K | $34K | $20K | — | — | $1.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $316K from 8 charities:
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 positions2
- Total compensation, all staff$63K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Sheila Dobie (chairperson); Nicole Melanson (director); Daria Zovi (director); Valerie Perkins (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Salt Spring Island Farmland Trust Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 848383659RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.