Ecology North
Publicly funded institution · Yellowknife, Northwest Territories · BN 118892736RR0001 · Environment · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($680,896) as filed with the CRA.
Ecology North is a charitable organization based in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, 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 March 31, 2024, it reported $723K in revenue and $681K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 73% from government, 11% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 4 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $30K.
Compared with 83 environmental institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 2% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (5 positions in that band). The charity reported 5 permanent full-time positions.
In its own words
Ecology North Offers environmental education and awareness in the following five areas: local food production climate change mitigation and adaptation water stewardship nature appreciation and waste reduction. Some of the public environmental events we organize include: Waste Reduction Week Earth Week Rivers to Oceans Day and natural history events such as the Christmas Bird count. We operate a school garden program. We hold regular water stewardship group meetings for youth host an annual youth water stewardship gathering and we provide environmental education sessions at schools and su…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $723K | $681K | $31K | — | — | $247K |
| 2023 | $468K | $668K | $518K | $18K | — | $205K |
| 2022 | $527K | $535K | $407K | $34K | $0 | $405K |
| 2021 | $479K | $348K | $307K | $7,374 | $0 | $397K |
| 2020 | $928K | $987K | $969K | $1,877 | $0 | $266K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $30K from 4 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions5
- Total compensation, all staff$371K
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 Ecology North’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118892736RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.