Delta Waterfowl Foundation
Charitable organization · Portage la Prairie, Manitoba · BN 119058998RR0001 · Animal Welfare · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($1,400,181) as filed with the CRA.
Delta Waterfowl Foundation is a charitable organization based in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, classified by the CRA under animal welfare. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $6.4M in revenue and $1.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 55% from donations. In 2024, 16 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $277K.
Compared with 112 animal-welfare charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 99% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $120,000–159,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 10 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.3M in 2020 to $6.4M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 23 names.
In its own words
Waterfowl conservation programs -include unique conservation program initiatives in canada. Programs are achieved through the use of various tools including communications scientific research demonstration and outreach. Intensive conservation management programs such as hen houses and predator maangment research also conserve waterfowl. The outcome of traditional conservation programs and intensive management programs are to increase waterfowl and conservation resources in canada. Hunter education programs teach participants about conservation and the important role hunting has on waterfowl …
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $6.4M | $1.4M | $4M | $720K | — | $4.2M |
| 2023 | $4.7M | $2.4M | $2M | $357K | — | $2.6M |
| 2022 | $1.8M | $1.8M | $1.5M | $369K | — | $319K |
| 2021 | $885K | $804K | $681K | $119K | — | $342K |
| 2020 | $1.3M | $2.3M | $1.9M | $354K | — | $433K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $277K from 16 charities:
- The Thor E and Nicole Eaton Family Charitable Foundation$100K
- UHN Foundation$50K
- Manitoba Habitat Heritage Corporation$45K
- Vancouver Foundation$27K
- The Calgary Foundation$20K
- M-E Squared Foundation$10K
- Kanovsky Family Foundation$5,000
- Aeonian Support for Humanitarian Charities Foundation$5,000
- The Catherine and Fredrik Eaton Charitable Foundation$3,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$2,693
- The Donald And Eleanor Seaman Family Foundation$2,000
- Aqueduct Foundation$2,000
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$2,000
- Canadahelps Canadon$1,492
- The Winnipeg Foundation$714
- Carthy Foundation$500
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9992 positions
- $80,000–119,9995 positions
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions10
- Total compensation, all staff$1.3M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Robert Bartels (director); Dick Carmical (director); John Childs (director); Angus Cooper (director); John Dale (director); John Dobbs (director); Charles Elcan (director); George Freeman (director); Sprague Richardson; David Wells (director); Tucker Knight (director); Ariel Somes (director); W Frank McCreight (director); Michael Mooney (director); Don Valentine (director); Timothy Robertson (director); Patrick Rothwell (director); Scott Petrie (ceo/director); Robert Trainer (director); William Yandell (director); Roesmary McIlhenny (director); Ben Bordelon (director); John Dunlap (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Delta Waterfowl Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119058998RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.