Foundation for Canadian Parks and Wilderness
Public foundation · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 889472593RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($56,311) as filed with the CRA.
Foundation for Canadian Parks and Wilderness is a public foundation based in Ottawa, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $80K in revenue and $56K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 77% from other charities. In 2024, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $52K.
Compared with 3,025 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 27% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $42K in 2024, the largest being $42K to CANADIAN PARKS AND WILDERNESS SOCIETY/La Société pour la nature et les parcs du Canada. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $124K in 2020 to $80K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
The foundation: -manages an endowment fund to support the canadian parks and wilderness society; -promotes the conservation of natural land and marine ecosystems in canada through public education scientific studies and protections: -solicits/ receives donations/ grants/ bequests to find its administration as well as projects undertaken directly or by other organization promoting the same objectives as the foundations.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $80K | $56K | — | — | $42K | $904K |
| 2023 | $73K | $55K | — | — | $46K | $880K |
| 2022 | $112K | $28K | — | — | $20K | $862K |
| 2021 | $153K | $28K | — | — | $21K | $778K |
| 2020 | $124K | $26K | — | — | $23K | $653K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $42K to 1 qualified donee:
Received $52K from 2 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Harvey Locke (chair); Steven Sims (treasurer); Grandy John (director); Alexander Abboud (director); Phillipa Lawson (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Foundation for Canadian Parks and Wilderness’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 889472593RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.