Hope for Wildlife Society
Charitable organization · Seaforth, Nova Scotia · BN 885062448RR0001 · Animal Welfare
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,222,805) as filed with the CRA.
Hope for Wildlife Society is a charitable organization based in Seaforth, Nova Scotia, classified by the CRA under animal welfare. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $2.5M in revenue and $2.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 70% from donations, 5% from government. In 2024, 42 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.3M.
Compared with 112 animal-welfare charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 81% of peers. None of its ten highest-paid positions cleared $40,000. The charity reported 11 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
Web site education e-mail ( direct questions and answers ) tours of educational facilities television and radio interviews - emphasis on education public speaking arragements rehabilitation or injured / orphaned mammals seabirds and songbirds research and lab work ( data collection and analysis) summer camp to educate children on site hospital with a full time vet on staff extend the pick-up range for injured wildlife to the entire province of nova scotia through a dispatch team drop off centers established in camperdown and deep hollow two solar panel projects completi…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.5M | $2.2M | $2.1M | $114K | — | $4.7M |
| 2023 | $3.5M | $2M | $1.9M | $77K | — | $4.4M |
| 2022 | $1.8M | $1.7M | $1.7M | $61K | — | $1.2M |
| 2021 | $2.1M | $1.4M | $1.3M | $54K | $0 | $2.9M |
| 2020 | $1.8M | $1.5M | — | — | — | $2.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $1.3M from 42 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$524K
- Canadahelps Canadon$524K
- Walker Wood Foundation$70K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$30K
- The Rosewater Charitable Foundation$25K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$23K
- Vancouver Foundation$21K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$17K
- Canadian National Christian Foundation$13K
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$12K
- The Highbury Foundation$10K
- Vancity Community Foundation$10K
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$9,060
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$8,500
- United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes$5,769
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$4,875
- United Way of Greater Moncton and Southeastern New Brunswick Region Inc.\centraide de la Region du Grand Moncton et du Sud Est du Nouveau-New Brunswick Inc.$3,474
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$2,896
- Waterloo Region Community Foundation$2,000
- The Community Foundation of Nova Scotia Society$2,000
- Open Sky$2,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,940
- Canada Gives$1,500
- BenefAction Foundation$1,500
- United Way of Greater Toronto$1,407
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $1–39,99911 positions
- Permanent full-time positions11
- Total compensation, all staff$544K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Patricia Bell (director); Kevin McNanara (vice chairman); Hope Swinimer (secretary / treasurer); Sandra Thomas (chairman); Margaret Tutert (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Hope for Wildlife Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 885062448RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.