British Columbia · Registered charity
FRESH ROOTS URBAN FARM SOCIETY
FRESH ROOTS URBAN FARM SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 32 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,403,783 to it, the largest being B.C. SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS FOUNDATION (C$224,150). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- C$1.0M
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- C$1.4M
- Net assets
- C$25k
What Fresh Roots Urban Farm Society does
Ongoing programs
Good Food For All! Fresh Roots works towards ensuring that everyone has access to healthy land food and community. We do that through our three program pillars: Good Food (Poverty Alleviation) Experiential Learning (Education) and Youth Empowerment (Leadership Development). Good Food: Fresh Roots grows fresh food for the school and surrounding community. We train young people in agriculture to learn how to grow and share the food they grow thus ensuring that they have access to healthy food particularly when they do not have access to it at home or through other means. Experiential Learning: Fresh Roots host workshops field trips and volunteer opportunities and other programs to advance education towards our mission. Workshops field trips summee camps and volunteer opportunities are offered to youth to develop skills and confidence to grow and develop. Participants learn to grow food from seed and to build financial literacy take food to market thus learning how to budget make change etc. Youth Empowerment (Leadership): During the summer and after school we work with youth to build critical pre-employment skills as they learn how to grow cook share and develop a…
As stated on its FY2024 T3010.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from C$256k to C$431k (+68%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 41% · 2018 31% · 2019 29% · 2020 37% · 2021 57% · 2022 47% · 2023 44% · 2024 49%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
33% of FRESH ROOTS URBAN FARM SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (34% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose C$47k → C$300k.
From the CRA filings of FRESH ROOTS URBAN FARM SOCIETY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
FRESH ROOTS URBAN FARM SOCIETY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund FRESH ROOTS URBAN FARM SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 97% · 2018 51% · 2019 32% · 2020 28% · 2021 71% · 2022 26% · 2023 31% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
42% of FRESH ROOTS URBAN FARM SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
68% of FRESH ROOTS URBAN FARM SOCIETY's grant income comes from British Columbia funders.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$245k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 regions is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
FRESH ROOTS URBAN FARM SOCIETY has grown faster than half of the 388 support of schools and education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 388 support of schools and education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government revenue FRESH ROOTS URBAN FARM SOCIETY reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 49% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like FRESH ROOTS URBAN FARM SOCIETY
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every charity on the CRA register — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In British Columbia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds FRESH ROOTS URBAN FARM SOCIETY?
- FRESH ROOTS URBAN FARM SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 32 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,403,783 to it, the largest being B.C. SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS FOUNDATION (C$224,150). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRESH ROOTS URBAN FARM SOCIETY have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 32 organizations giving C$1,403,783 in grants to FRESH ROOTS URBAN FARM SOCIETY, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRESH ROOTS URBAN FARM SOCIETY?
- B.C. SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$224,150 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRESH ROOTS URBAN FARM SOCIETY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in British Columbia.
These figures are read directly from the CRA's published T3010 data: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 32 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · View the T3010 on the CRA register