Salt Spring Island Foundation
Public foundation · Salt Spring Island, British Columbia · BN 811053255RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,294,920) as filed with the CRA.
Salt Spring Island Foundation is a public foundation based in Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $7.2M in revenue and $1.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 68% from donations. In 2024, 11 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $331K.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 33% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 1 permanent full-time position.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 32 qualified donees totalling $789K in 2024, the largest being $171K to Salt Spring Island Farmland Trust Society. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.6M in 2020 to $7.2M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
The Salt Spring Island Foundation provides grants to qualified registered charitable organizations on and benefiting Salt Spring Island residents. This is achieved through several granting cycles each year.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $7.2M | $1.3M | $236K | — | $789K | $19.5M |
| 2023 | $6.5M | $832K | — | — | $511K | $13.6M |
| 2022 | $267K | $1.3M | $103K | — | $989K | $8M |
| 2021 | $1.6M | $660K | $79K | — | $446K | $9.1M |
| 2020 | $1.6M | $810K | $78K | — | $601K | $8.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Public foundation — endowment and payout, December 31, 2024
- Receipted donations$4,936,281
- Investment income$495,472
This ratio is gifts made divided by total assets at year end. It is not the CRA disbursement quota, which is calculated on the average value of property not used in charitable activities and cannot be derived from these filings.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $789K to 32 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Salt Spring Island Farmland Trust Society$171K
- Capital Regional District$117K
- BC Parks Foundation$100K
- Islanders Working Against Violence Society$68K
- Salt Spring Arts Council$50K
- The Board of Education of School District No. 64 (Gulf Islands)$32K
- Island Arts Centre Society (Artspring)$25K
- Salt Spring Island Public Library Association$21K
- Salt Spring and Southern Gulf Islands Community Services Society$19K
- Salt Spring Literacy Society$15K
- Island Pathways$15K
- Fulford Community Hall Association$15K
- Bandemonium Music Society$15K
- Salt Spring Farmers' Heritage Foundation$12K
- The Circle Salt Spring Education Society$10K
- Stqeeye' Learning Society$10K
- KidSport Canada$10K
- Gulf Islands Marine Rescue Society$10K
- Gulf Islands Families Together Society$9,695
- Salt Spring Film Festival Society$8,862
- Graffiti Theatre Company Society$8,000
- Lookout Housing and Health Society$7,500
- Stagecoach School for the Performing Arts Society$6,000
- The Saltspring Island Historical Society$6,000
- Anglican Synod of the Diocese of British Columbia$6,000
Received $331K from 11 charities:
- Community Foundations of Canada$165K
- The Victoria Foundation$115K
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$28K
- Canadahelps Canadon$16K
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$2,309
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$2,000
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$1,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$830
- West Vancouver Community Foundation$500
- Vancity Community Foundation$350
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$164
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$215K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Sandra Heath (director); Karen Arney (secretary); Anil Pereira (director); Paul Elworthy (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Salt Spring Island Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 811053255RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.