British Columbia · Registered charity
SALT SPRING AND SOUTHERN GULF ISLANDS COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY
SALT SPRING AND SOUTHERN GULF ISLANDS COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 37 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$5,696,326 to it, the largest being The 625 Powell Street Foundation (C$1,714,063). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- C$8.3M
- Funders on record
- 37
- Grants received
- C$5.7M
- Net assets
- C$1.1M
What Salt Spring and Southern Gulf Islands Community Services Society does
Ongoing programs
We operate a food bank and a complete harvest food program that includes growing recovery meals and coupons for healthy produce. We operate a year round shelter a recycle depot a range of non-medical supports for seniors we provide mental health drop-in services vocational development mental health outreach and housing supports. We also provide a range of youth counseling and supports early childhood programs child and adult special needs programs and supported housing. Harvest home meals for seniors delivered prepared from our kitchen. A harvest cafe and farm stand as a social enterprise with profits re-invested in ssics. Expanding harvest kitchen to provide healthy meals to other programs within the agency and beyond.
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 2020 to 2021, from C$10M to C$19M (+81%).
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 54% · 2018 67% · 2019 68% · 2020 52% · 2021 58% · 2022 62% · 2023 63% · 2024 68%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
29% of SALT SPRING AND SOUTHERN GULF ISLANDS COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (4% 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 narrowed from 15 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose C$264k → C$513k.
From the CRA filings of SALT SPRING AND SOUTHERN GULF ISLANDS COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 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
SALT SPRING AND SOUTHERN GULF ISLANDS COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 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 SALT SPRING AND SOUTHERN GULF ISLANDS COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 34% · 2019 47% · 2020 63% · 2021 22% · 2022 26% · 2023 30% — 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
63% of SALT SPRING AND SOUTHERN GULF ISLANDS COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
93% of SALT SPRING AND SOUTHERN GULF ISLANDS COMMUNITY SERVICES 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$13k 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
SALT SPRING AND SOUTHERN GULF ISLANDS COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY has grown faster than half of the 1,132 community resource nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,132 community resource nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government revenue SALT SPRING AND SOUTHERN GULF ISLANDS COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 68% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like SALT SPRING AND SOUTHERN GULF ISLANDS COMMUNITY SERVICES 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
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds SALT SPRING AND SOUTHERN GULF ISLANDS COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY?
- SALT SPRING AND SOUTHERN GULF ISLANDS COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 37 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$5,696,326 to it, the largest being The 625 Powell Street Foundation (C$1,714,063). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SALT SPRING AND SOUTHERN GULF ISLANDS COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 37 organizations giving C$5,696,326 in grants to SALT SPRING AND SOUTHERN GULF ISLANDS COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SALT SPRING AND SOUTHERN GULF ISLANDS COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY?
- The 625 Powell Street Foundation is the largest funder on record, with C$1,714,063 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SALT SPRING AND SOUTHERN GULF ISLANDS COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in British Columbia.
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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 37 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