Canadian Wildlife Foundation
Public foundation · Kanata, Ontario · BN 122085434RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-02-28. Split of total expenditures ($58,952) as filed with the CRA.
Canadian Wildlife Foundation is a public foundation based in Kanata, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending February 28, 2024, it reported $1M in revenue and $59K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 36% from donations, 15% from other charities. In 2024, 16 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $53K.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 1% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $29K in 2024, the largest being $29K to Canadian Wildlife Federation. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
In addition to providing funding support to wildlife conservation work by the federation the canadian wildlife foundation provides post secondary scholarships for students in wildlife related fields. These include the: - orville erickson memorial scholarship fund - captain richard lloyd memorial fund - past president's memorial trust fund - neil mauer memorial forest fund - francis elizabeth hilder scholarship fund the foundation has also begun to develop social enterprises based on sound conservation initiatives that will generate revenue. Profits will be re-invested in future conserva…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1M | $59K | $6,800 | — | — | $6.4M |
| 2023 | $429K | $56K | $6,100 | — | $4,000 | $5.5M |
| 2022 | $2.6M | $573K | $5,000 | — | $527K | $5.1M |
| 2021 | $981K | $707K | $7,400 | — | $663K | $3.1M |
| 2020 | $870K | $671K | $8,100 | — | $624K | $2.8M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $29K to 1 qualified donee:
Received $53K from 16 charities:
- Maud and Christina Duncan Charitable Foundation$30K
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$5,000
- Canadahelps Canadon$4,526
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$3,210
- The Holger and Claudette Kluge Family Foundation$3,000
- Aqueduct Foundation$2,000
- Krilavicius Family Foundation$2,000
- ATCO Electric Epic$1,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$742
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$677
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$343
- The United Church of Canada Foundation$300
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$205
- BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust$40
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$20
- My Tribute Gift Foundation—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Vezina Guy (vice chair); David Pezerdic (trustee); John Ford (trustees); Rodney Briggs (chair); Dwain Lingenfelter (trustee); Brad Fairley (trustee).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Canadian Wildlife Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 122085434RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.