Salt Spring Island Public Library Association
Publicly funded institution · Salt Spring Island, British Columbia · BN 119133551RR0001 · Public Amenities · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($985,439) as filed with the CRA.
Salt Spring Island Public Library Association is a charitable organization based in Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under public amenities. 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 December 31, 2024, it reported $967K in revenue and $985K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 5% from donations, 72% from government, 17% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 10 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $239K.
Compared with 686 public-amenity institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 61% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 87% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 6 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $619K in 2020 to $967K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
Public Library providing resources and programming to local community
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $967K | $985K | $863K | $1,577 | $0 | $1M |
| 2023 | $857K | $861K | $745K | $1,270 | $0 | $1M |
| 2022 | $705K | $734K | $685K | $1,156 | — | $1M |
| 2021 | $796K | $659K | $611K | $1,233 | — | $1.1M |
| 2020 | $619K | $601K | $548K | $2,633 | — | $933K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $239K from 10 charities:
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
- $40,000–79,9994 positions
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions6
- Total compensation, all staff$431K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Adrian Wright (chair); Peter Freeman (board member); Gary Holman (crd director); Anne Zeller (vice chair); Garth Hendren (board member); Richard Swann (treasurer); Christine Hunt (board member); Andrea Little (board member); Tracy Watkins (board member); Paula Palyga (board member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Salt Spring Island Public Library Association’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119133551RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.