Township of Langley Professional Firefighter`s Local 4550 Charitable Society
Public foundation · Aldergrove, British Columbia · BN 811094705RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($438,357) as filed with the CRA.
Township of Langley Professional Firefighter`s Local 4550 Charitable Society is a public foundation based in Aldergrove, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $373K in revenue and $438K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 35% from donations. In 2024, 4 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $63K.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 15% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 84% of that peer group.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 27 qualified donees totalling $222K in 2024, the largest being $110K to Langley School District Foundation. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $951K in 2020 to $373K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
To receive and maintain a fund or funds and to apply all or part of the principal and income therefrom from time to time to qualified donees as defined in subsection 149.1(1) of the income tax act. Do all such things as are incidental and ancillary to the attainment of these purposes.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $373K | $438K | $32K | $176K | $222K | $1.4M |
| 2023 | $1.1M | $720K | $11K | $234K | $467K | $1.4M |
| 2022 | $958K | $546K | $10K | $189K | $340K | $1M |
| 2021 | $246K | $153K | $8,686 | $59K | $78K | $634K |
| 2020 | $951K | $830K | $15K | $204K | $603K | $541K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $222K to 27 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Langley School District Foundation$110K
- Muscular Dystrophy Canada / Dystrophie musculaire Canada$30K
- British Columbia Professional Fire Fighters' Burn Fund$21K
- Langley Community Health and Hospital Foundation$17K
- Langley Hospice Society$5,550
- Sources Community Resources Foundation$5,442
- Langley Animal Protection Society$4,100
- Surrey Fire Fighters Charitable Society$4,000
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Langley$3,192
- Encompass Support Services Society$3,000
- British Columbia's Children's Hospital Foundation$2,519
- Langley Food Bank Society$2,492
- BC Farm Museum Association$2,000
- Special Olympics British Columbia Society$1,046
- Pacific Riding for Developing Abilities$1,000
- Nightshift Street Ministries Society$1,000
- Special Olympics British Columbia Society$1,000
- Langley Community Health and Hospital Foundation$1,000
- Langley Community Support Groups Society$1,000
- Ishtar Women's Resource Society$1,000
- Critter CARE Wildlife Society$1,000
- Canadian Cancer Society$1,000
- Alder Grove Heritage Society$1,000
- Abbotsford Firefighters' Charitable Society$1,000
- Movember Canada$502
Received $63K from 4 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jordan Sparrow (president); Duncan McIntosh (secretary); Brad Wegesser (vice president); Zachary Funk (director); Jason Hodge (director); Alastair Ohs (treasurer).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Township of Langley Professional Firefighter`s Local 4550 Charitable Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 811094705RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.