Alberta Birds of Prey Foundation
Charitable organization · Coaldale, Alberta · BN 896535895RR0001 · Animal Welfare · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($808,760) as filed with the CRA.
Alberta Birds of Prey Foundation is a charitable organization based in Coaldale, Alberta, classified by the CRA under animal welfare. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $958K in revenue and $809K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 34% from donations, 21% from government, 5% from other charities. In 2024, 10 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $80K.
Compared with 414 animal-welfare charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 68% 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 7 names.
In its own words
Rehabilitating and releasing injured birds of prey back to the wild; captive breeding and release of endangered species. Encouraging increased public environmental awareness; studying and monitoring wild birds of prey populations.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $958K | $809K | $768K | — | — | $5.2M |
| 2023 | $1.5M | $808K | $767K | — | — | $5.1M |
| 2022 | $1.8M | $742K | $721K | — | — | $4.4M |
| 2021 | $990K | $675K | $642K | — | — | $3.3M |
| 2020 | $650K | $699K | $664K | $0 | $0 | $3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $80K from 10 charities:
- The HOP Foundation$33K
- Community Foundation of Lethbridge and Southwestern Alberta$16K
- The Calgary Foundation$7,351
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$6,829
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$5,000
- Canadahelps Canadon$4,331
- The Byler Foundation$2,500
- The Hindle Family Foundation$2,500
- Georgina Sawyer Memorial Foundation$2,000
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$130
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$371K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Don Wentz (president); G.L Chew (secretary/treasurer); Helen Henderson (director); Peter Kelley (director); John Wiebe (director); Graeme Greenlee (director); Lane Shumlich (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Alberta Birds of Prey Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 896535895RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.