Gordon and Patricia Gray Animal Welfare Foundation
Private foundation · Richmond Hill, Ontario · BN 813259066RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,614,891) as filed with the CRA.
Gordon and Patricia Gray Animal Welfare Foundation is a private foundation based in Richmond Hill, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.3M in revenue and $1.6M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
In 2024, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $6,109.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 66% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $40,000–79,999 range. The charity reported 1 permanent full-time position.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 31 qualified donees totalling $1.5M in 2024, the largest being $447K to African Wildlife Foundation of Canada. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $5.3M in 2020 to $1.3M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
The foundation's program is to donate to a variety of domestic & wild animal (including birds & sealife) related charities as well as environmental charities particularly as they relate to the preservation of wildlife.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.3M | $1.6M | — | — | $1.5M | $26.2M |
| 2023 | $884K | $1.4M | — | — | $1.4M | $26.5M |
| 2022 | $2.3M | $906K | — | — | $746K | $27M |
| 2021 | $8.8M | $778K | — | — | $600K | $25.6M |
| 2020 | $5.3M | $667K | — | — | $564K | $17.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1.5M to 31 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- African Wildlife Foundation of Canada$447K
- Cheetah Conservation Fund Canada$161K
- Big Life Foundation Canada$153K
- National Wildlife Centre$121K
- Kawartha Turtle Trauma Centre$83K
- Canadian Sea Turtle Network Incorporated$75K
- World Wildlife Fund Canada Fonds Mondial pour la Nature Can Ada$45K
- Queen's University at Kingston$41K
- Atlantic Salmon Federation (canada) / Federation du Saumon Atlantique (canada)$40K
- Aspen Valley Wildlife Sanctuary$37K
- The Roberta Bondar Foundation$35K
- Wilder Institute$30K
- Vancouver Aquarium Marine Mammal Rescue Society$30K
- Raincoast Conservation Foundation$20K
- Pegasus Animal Sanctuary$16K
- Wildlife Preservation Canada/conservation de la Faune au Ca Nada$16K
- Bear Creek Exotic Wildlife Sanctuary Inc.$15K
- Marmot Recovery Foundation$15K
- La Fondation Quebecoise Fauna/the Quebec Fauna Foundation$15K
- Bear With Us Inc$15K
- Salthaven Wildlife Rehabilitation and Education Centre Inc.$13K
- Story Book Farm Primate Sanctuary$10K
- The Owl Foundation$10K
- Université de Montréal$10K
- Bird Ecology and Conservation Ontario$10K
Received $6,109 from 2 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions1
- Total compensation, all staff$70K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Donald Gray (director); David Gray (director); Diane Gray (director); Douglas Gray (director); Gray Deborah (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Gordon and Patricia Gray Animal Welfare Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 813259066RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.