Corvus Centre for Conservation Policy
Publicly funded institution · Calgary, Alberta · BN 775352206RR0001 · Environment · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-09-30. Split of total expenditures ($168,211) as filed with the CRA.
Corvus Centre for Conservation Policy is a charitable organization based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under environment. It appears on the charity register the way hospitals, universities, and other publicly funded bodies do — to issue tax receipts — rather than as a donation-driven charity in the usual sense. In its fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, it reported $177K in revenue and $168K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 42% from donations, 58% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $192.
Compared with 83 environmental institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 26% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 1 permanent full-time position.
In its own words
LAND USE AND BIODIVERSITY Land use is a general term and it refers to how we build on use protect travel across reside on and play on the physical land base and the waters that support it. Land use decision-making is the primary vector for biodiversity loss (and protection) but we struggle to link the science the policy and the decisions. NATURAL INFRASTRUCTURE Natural infrastructure refers to the facilities and systems that provide the services essential to sustain society and which are principally provided or governed by nature. This encompasses the flora fauna landforms and wa…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2023–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $177K | $168K | $130K | — | — | -$10K |
| 2023 | $189K | $188K | $122K | — | — | -$19K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $192 from 1 charity:
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
- Permanent full-time positions1
- Total compensation, all staff$129K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Corvus Centre for Conservation Policy’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 775352206RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.