Hobbitstee Wildlife Refuge
Charitable organization · Nanticoke, Ontario · BN 835211178RR0001 · Animal Welfare · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($809,492) as filed with the CRA.
Hobbitstee Wildlife Refuge is a charitable organization based in Nanticoke, Ontario, classified by the CRA under animal welfare. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $950K in revenue and $809K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 95% from donations. In 2024, 12 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $179K.
Compared with 414 animal-welfare charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 25% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 96% of that peer group. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $340K in 2020 to $950K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
Hobbitstee wildlife refuge continues to carry on its work of rehabilitating sick injured and orphaned wildlife with the ultimate goal of returning them to the wild. We help educate people on wildlife related issues through social media handing out of brochures attending events speaking engagements and in-classroom education. We also work with young offenders through child and youth services and provide them with meaningful activities. Hobbitstee rehabilitated over 3000 wild reptiles birds and mammals during the year. It works in conjunction with area spca offices to receive and treat …
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $950K | $809K | $617K | $1,592 | — | $3.1M |
| 2023 | $389K | $937K | $924K | $1,591 | — | $2.3M |
| 2022 | $1.2M | $291K | $279K | $713 | — | $2.1M |
| 2021 | $832K | $120K | $120K | — | — | $1.1M |
| 2020 | $340K | $77K | $67K | $1,470 | — | $346K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $179K from 12 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$68K
- Canadahelps Canadon$68K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$15K
- Niagara Action for Animals$10K
- Waterloo Region Community Foundation$10K
- Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de Niagara$3,000
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$1,981
- United Way Niagara$511
- United Way Niagara$511
- United Way Elgin Middlesex$463
- South Peel Naturalists' Club$200
- My Tribute Gift Foundation—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Total compensation, all staff$21K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Hazel Connaghan (director); Richard Julian (director); Dave Lowe (vice chair); Chantal Theijn (chair secr treasurer); Tiffany Trebych-Fuller (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Hobbitstee Wildlife Refuge’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 835211178RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.