Swan Lake Christmas Hill Nature Sanctuary Society
Publicly funded institution · Victoria, British Columbia · BN 119207157RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,103,015) as filed with the CRA.
Swan Lake Christmas Hill Nature Sanctuary Society is a charitable organization based in Victoria, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. 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 $1M in revenue and $1.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 5% from donations, 64% from government, 11% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 8 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $94K.
Compared with 829 community-service institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 17% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 2 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
In 2024 we offered community nature interpretation programming to 15 000 nature house visitors children youth adults and seniors - and delivered 230 programs to 3 900 school-aged students with the help of 381 hours of volunteers supporting us. Our junior stewardship series ran eight rounds (three week-long camps +5 professional development single days) with youth ages 6-12 doing active ecological restoration for both sensitive garry oak meadows and for improving habitat for threatened western painted turtles on site. We also offered 12 sessions of after school or weekend programs for chi…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1M | $1.1M | $867K | $51K | — | $1.3M |
| 2023 | $906K | $1M | $787K | $39K | — | $1.3M |
| 2022 | $842K | $960K | $687K | $76K | — | $1.4M |
| 2021 | $795K | $782K | $547K | $39K | — | $1.6M |
| 2020 | $767K | $737K | $511K | $42K | — | $1.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $94K from 8 charities:
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$50K
- The Victoria Foundation$32K
- Canadahelps Canadon$4,315
- BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust$3,083
- Pacific Salmon Foundation/fondation du Saumon du Pacifique$2,500
- Wayne Foo Foundation$1,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$864
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$108
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
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions2
- Total compensation, all staff$570K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Lynn Young (vice chair); Rick Marshall (director); Sharon Daly (chair); Pablo Melo Flores (director); Maureen Butler (treasurer).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Swan Lake Christmas Hill Nature Sanctuary Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119207157RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.