Bow Valley Naturalists Society
Charitable organization · Banff, Alberta · BN 890401771RR0001 · Public Amenities · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($10,748) as filed with the CRA.
Bow Valley Naturalists Society is a charitable organization based in Banff, Alberta, classified by the CRA under public amenities. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $15K in revenue and $11K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 9% from donations, 86% from other charities. In 2024, 4 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $12K.
Compared with 2,652 public-amenity charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 21% of peers.
It reported gifts to 3 qualified donees totalling $2,600 in 2024, the largest being $2,000 to Biosphere Institute of the Bow Valley.
In its own words
We traditionally offer educational programming: a winter speaker series christmas bird count plus participation in community programs. All of which are free and open to the public. We maintain an informative website and publish a newsletter three times/ year with interesting articles plus online updates (29) on coming events and current issues of interest to our membership. We have 2 long term citizen science based research programs: monitoring avian productivity and survivorship (maps) and high elevation localized species (hels). Our education and research program is primarily focussed on e…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $15K | $11K | $900 | — | $4,600 | $33K |
| 2023 | $8,427 | $9,513 | $1,800 | — | $1,800 | $29K |
| 2022 | $13K | $8,341 | — | — | $1,800 | $30K |
| 2021 | $7,942 | $5,578 | $6,047 | — | $2,000 | $26K |
| 2020 | $9,955 | $12K | $6,047 | — | $5,050 | $24K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $2,600 to 3 qualified donees:
Received $12K from 4 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Bow Valley Naturalists Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 890401771RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.