Beaverhill Bird Observatory Society
Charitable organization · Edmonton, Alberta · BN 134413525RR0001 · Animal Welfare · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($295,077) as filed with the CRA.
Beaverhill Bird Observatory Society is a charitable organization based in Edmonton, Alberta, classified by the CRA under animal welfare. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $790K in revenue and $295K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 61% from donations, 7% from government, 10% from other charities. In 2024, 12 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $203K.
Compared with 414 animal-welfare charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 98% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 100% of that peer group. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 4 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $313K in 2020 to $790K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 14 names.
In its own words
Canadian migration monitoring program monitoring avian productivity and survivorship (maps) program saw-whet boreal and long-eared owl migration program breeding biology of tree swallows house wrens purple martins and saw-whet owls public engagement programs young ornithologists workshop student internships stewards of the provincial natural area studies breeding birds in grassland and aspen forest monitoring breeding and migrating bats overseeing the alberta-wide nocturnal owl monitoring program project nestwatch monitoring mammal populations butterfly monitoring operating a…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $790K | $295K | $311K | $0 | $0 | $1.5M |
| 2023 | $361K | $278K | $278K | — | — | $1M |
| 2022 | $395K | $219K | $219K | — | — | $949K |
| 2021 | $448K | $180K | $174K | $550 | — | $788K |
| 2020 | $313K | $156K | — | — | $0 | $514K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $203K from 12 charities:
- The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act$112K
- Canadahelps Canadon$20K
- Canadahelps Canadon$20K
- Alberta Conservation Association$18K
- Nature Canada / Canada Nature$14K
- TD Friends of the Environment Foundation$12K
- Battle River Community Foundation$5,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$1,647
- Birds Canada / Oiseaux Canada$150
- Strathcona County Library Board$100
- United Way of Calgary and Area$96
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$63
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- $1–39,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions4
- Total compensation, all staff$210K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Geoff Holroyd (chair); Rose Scott (treasurer); Helen Trefry (vice chair); Glen Hvenegaard (director at large); Alyssa Bohart (director at large); Darren McGregor (director at large web designe); Julianne Hayes (director at large); Christie Campbell (director at large); Warren Finlay (director at large); Emily Maclellan (gross) (director at large); Brendan Casey (director at large); Richard Hedley (director at large web designe); Sian Ford (secretary); Carmen Patry (director at large).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Beaverhill Bird Observatory Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 134413525RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.