Ducks Unlimited Canada - Canards Illimites Canada
Charitable organization · Stonewall, Manitoba · BN 118888957RR0001 · Animal Welfare · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($117,447,830) as filed with the CRA.
Ducks Unlimited Canada - Canards Illimites Canada is a charitable organization based in Stonewall, Manitoba, classified by the CRA under animal welfare. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $150.4M in revenue and $117.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 23% from government, 6% from other charities. In 2024, 65 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $4.6M.
Its highest-paid position fell in the $350,000 and over range. The charity reported 451 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 37 qualified donees totalling $3.1M in 2024, the largest being $1.5M to Raincoast Conservation Foundation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $78.3M in 2020 to $150.4M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 53 names.
In its own words
Ducks Unlimited Canada carried out numerous programs throughout its fiscal year to increase and perpetuate North American waterfowl populations through the conservation of wetland ecosystems and associated habitats and the promotion of a healthy sustainable environment for people and wildlife.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $150.4M | $117.4M | $100.3M | $5.6M | $3.1M | $428.2M |
| 2023 | $140.8M | $130.2M | $117M | $5.3M | $2.2M | $386.8M |
| 2022 | $104.6M | $92.2M | $77.8M | $4.5M | $2.9M | $383.5M |
| 2021 | $119M | $81M | $69.1M | $4.9M | $1.5M | $372.7M |
| 2020 | $78.3M | $82M | $64M | $10.2M | $1.4M | $332.7M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $3.1M to 37 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Raincoast Conservation Foundation$1.5M
- University of Saskatchewan$201K
- Appalachian Corridor / Corridor Appalachien$175K
- Acadia University$165K
- The Governors of The University of Calgary$142K
- Souris River Watershed District$131K
- Lower Thames Valley Conservation Authority$81K
- Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada$70K
- Delta Farmland and Wildlife Trust$64K
- The University of New Brunswick$56K
- Saskatchewan Soil Conservation Association Inc$55K
- ALUS Canada$49K
- Fraser Valley Watersheds Coalition$38K
- Province of Nova Scotia$30K
- Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority$30K
- The British Columbia Conservation Foundation$30K
- Province of Prince Edward Island$30K
- Pembina Valley Watershed District$28K
- Kettle Creek Conservation Authority$28K
- Comox Valley Project Watershed Society$28K
- Maitland Valley Conservation Authority$15K
- University of Wisconsin$13K
- Ausable Bayfield Conservation Foundation$12K
- University of Texas at El Paso$12K
- Tennessee Technological University$12K
Received $4.6M from 65 charities:
- Weston Family Foundation$1.2M
- The Nature Conservancy of Canada$1.1M
- Manitoba Habitat Heritage Corporation$500K
- The Interlake Community Foundation Inc.$297K
- Pacific Salmon Foundation/fondation du Saumon du Pacifique$275K
- The Winnipeg Foundation$212K
- Place2Give Foundation$175K
- Duncan M. & Judith O. Jessiman Foundation Inc.$150K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$141K
- Carthy Foundation$105K
- Roses of Hope Foundation$100K
- GiftPact Foundation Inc.$52K
- Hunter Family Foundation$40K
- Canadahelps Canadon$31K
- Canadahelps Canadon$31K
- The Fitzhenry Family Foundation$20K
- BenefAction Foundation$18K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$18K
- United Way of the Alberta Capital Region$16K
- TD Friends of the Environment Foundation$16K
- The Cardinal Foundation$15K
- The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act$15K
- The McCain Foundation$11K
- The Donald F. Hunter Charitable Foundation$10K
- WCPD Foundation$10K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $350,000 and over1 position
- $300,000–349,9991 position
- $250,000–299,9993 positions
- $200,000–249,9994 positions
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions451
- Total compensation, all staff$40.6M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Kevin Harris (chairman of the board); Roger D'Eschambault (president); Shawn Graham (secretary); Sara Penner (treasurer); Patrick O'Connor (vice president); Tom Davidson (director); Grant Devine (director); John Eagle (director); Rusty Legg (director); James Lawley (director); Grady Hartzog (director); Doug Schoenrock (director); Philip Holst (director); Rogers Jr Hoyt (director); Grenville Jones (director); Michael Solomita (director); Bryan Leverick (director); Monty Lewis (director); Paul Boehne (director); Ray Maher (director); Joseph Mazon (director); Kevin McFadden (director); James McHattie (director); Joseph Nicosia (director); Clayton Balsillie (director); Dwight Ball (director); James Richardson (director); Clay Rogers (director); Greg Sawchuck (director); John Tomke (director); Gregory Weeks (director); Nancy Wilkin (director); Fawn Jackson (director); Rob Penner (director); Alain Sagi (director); Rob Tamblyn (director); Vincent Bernier (director); Sebastien Charbonneau (director); Linda Brigley (director); Rob Burns (director); Bill Ansell (director); Chuck Smith (director); Suzanne Sullivan (director); Bruce Tetz (director); Andre Tremblay (director); David Brandt (director); Ron Miller (director); Jeff Dolan (director); Robert Spoerl (director); Mikkel Anderson (director); Alex Ocsai (director); Gabriela Polanco Sorto (director); Dany Renauld (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Ducks Unlimited Canada - Canards Illimites Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118888957RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.