CANADIAN PARKS AND WILDERNESS SOCIETY/La Société pour la nature et les parcs du Canada
Charitable organization · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 106865272RR0001 · Public Amenities · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($15,500,059) as filed with the CRA.
CANADIAN PARKS AND WILDERNESS SOCIETY/La Société pour la nature et les parcs du Canada is a charitable organization based in Ottawa, Ontario, classified by the CRA under public amenities. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $17M in revenue and $15.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 17% from donations, 32% from government, 23% from other charities. In 2024, 86 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $2.9M.
Compared with 46 public-amenity charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 47% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 94 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 6 qualified donees totalling $2.2M in 2024, the largest being $2M to Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $11.2M in 2020 to $17M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 15 names.
In its own words
A) Terrestrial Parks and Protected Areas Program - To establish new and expanded terrestrial protected areas while protecting nature in our existing parks; - To protect wilderness ecosystems across Canada; and - To educate Canadians about the importance of terrestrial conservation. B) Ocean Marine Protected Areas Program - To establish new and expanded marine protected areas while protecting nature in existing marine protected areas; - To protect natural marine ecosystems in Canada's oceans; and - To educate Canadians about the importance of marine conservation. C) Forests Climate an…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $17M | $15.5M | $10.6M | $750K | $2.2M | $10.6M |
| 2023 | $15.8M | $14.7M | $10.4M | $680K | $2.2M | $9.2M |
| 2022 | $11.7M | $10.7M | $7M | $618K | $1.6M | $8.1M |
| 2021 | $13.3M | $11.5M | $7.5M | $599K | $2.1M | $7.1M |
| 2020 | $11.2M | $10.2M | $6.7M | $590K | $1.2M | $5.4M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $2.2M to 6 qualified donees:
- Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society$2M
- Wildlands League$111K
- West Coast Environmental Law Research Foundation$106K
- Foundation for Canadian Parks and Wilderness$50K
- Miawpukek First Nation$10K
- Sackville Rivers Association$5,000
Received $2.9M from 86 charities:
- The Waltons Trust$415K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$267K
- The Sitka Foundation$244K
- Environment Funders Canada$155K
- Canadahelps Canadon$140K
- Canadahelps Canadon$140K
- Makeway Foundation$125K
- The Walker Lynch Foundation$104K
- The Annual Foundation$100K
- The Calgary Foundation$96K
- Vancouver Foundation$93K
- The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act$76K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$70K
- T-Gear Foundation$65K
- The Winnipeg Foundation$51K
- Oceans North Conservation Society$50K
- Manitoba Habitat Heritage Corporation$50K
- Eden Conservation Trust$50K
- T-Gear Foundation$50K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$44K
- Foundation for Canadian Parks and Wilderness$42K
- RBC Foundation$40K
- The Alberta Ecotrust Foundation$33K
- Canada Gives$26K
- The Consecon Foundation$25K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9993 positions
- $80,000–119,9996 positions
- Permanent full-time positions94
- Total compensation, all staff$5.5M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
John Grandy (president); Erik Val (trustee); Donald McMurtry (trustee); Richard Paisley (chair litigation committee); Ina Lucila (trustee); Kathleen Scalzo (trustee); Alexandra Tzannidakis (trustee); Denise Withers (trustee); Jennifer Smith (vice president); Charles Côté (trustee); Lana Mezquita (treasurer); Cinthia Nemoto (trustee); Barbara Buyck (trustee); Michael Wong (trustee); Dolorès André (trustee).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from CANADIAN PARKS AND WILDERNESS SOCIETY/La Société pour la nature et les parcs du Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 106865272RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.