Ancient Forest Alliance Society
Charitable organization · Victoria, British Columbia · BN 821233657RR0001 · Educational Organizations Not Elsewhere Categorized · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($730,861) as filed with the CRA.
Ancient Forest Alliance Society is a charitable organization based in Victoria, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under educational organizations not elsewhere categorized. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $774K in revenue and $731K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 75% from donations, 16% from other charities. In 2024, 18 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $98K.
Compared with 1,764 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 78% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 85% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 5 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
The Ancient Forest Alliance works to protect BCs endangered old-growth forests and to ensure a sustainable value-added second-growth forest industry by building alliance and policy campaigns.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2023–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $774K | $731K | $695K | $11K | — | $544K |
| 2023 | $680K | $527K | $500K | $7,133 | — | $501K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $98K from 18 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$22K
- Canadahelps Canadon$22K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$14K
- The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act$7,000
- The Langar Foundation$5,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$4,022
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$3,950
- The Victoria Foundation$3,000
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$3,000
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$3,000
- Toronto Foundation$2,600
- Makeway Foundation$2,500
- La Fondation Rossy The Rossy Foundation$2,000
- Canada Gives$1,000
- Vancouver Foundation$1,000
- BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust$821
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$751
- My Tribute Gift Foundation—
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
- $40,000–79,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions5
- Total compensation, all staff$385K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Kenneth Wu (board member); Towyn Watt (board member); Kerrie Blaise (board member); Celina Starnes (board member); Hannah Carpendale (board member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Ancient Forest Alliance Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 821233657RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.