International Conservation Fund of Canada Inc.
Charitable organization · Chester, Nova Scotia · BN 852478189RR0001 · Environment · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($10,617,505) as filed with the CRA.
International Conservation Fund of Canada Inc. is a charitable organization based in Chester, Nova Scotia, classified by the CRA under environment. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $11.6M in revenue and $10.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 76% from donations, 9% from other charities. In 2024, 39 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $2.8M.
Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 5 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $6.6M in 2020 to $11.6M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
Icfc's small staff volunteers and capable field partners accomplish a lot: 1. Partnering with kayapo indigenous people to protect theur vast territories in the brazilian amazon 2. Forest conservation in papua indonesia 3. Conserving imperiled species in sulawesi indonesia 4. Fish conservation in lake malawi 5. Shorebird conservation in latin america and asia 6. Community forests and grauer's gorilla in the drc 7. Community forest conservation madagascar 8. Indigenous-led conservation in the maje mountains panama 9. Conserving mali's desert elephants at the community level 10. Pr…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $11.6M | $10.6M | $9.8M | $139K | — | $9.3M |
| 2023 | $8.2M | $10.8M | $10.2M | $110K | — | $8.3M |
| 2022 | $9.2M | $8.8M | $8.2M | $115K | — | $10.9M |
| 2021 | $10M | $6.6M | $6.1M | — | — | $10.5M |
| 2020 | $6.6M | $5.9M | $5.4M | $141K | — | $7M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $2.8M from 39 charities:
- Juniper Foundation$1.1M
- Paul W. O'Leary Foundation$460K
- Aqueduct Foundation$285K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$125K
- Alan and Patricia Koval Foundation$122K
- Rotifer Foundation Inc.$107K
- BenefAction Foundation$74K
- Canada Gives$69K
- Canadahelps Canadon$58K
- Canadahelps Canadon$58K
- The Michael Young Family Foundation$52K
- The Firstline Foundation$50K
- Sarah & Cary Lavine Family Foundation$49K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$42K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$28K
- Fondation Philantra Philantra Foundation$25K
- Makeway Foundation$20K
- The Bradstreet Family Foundation$10K
- Airlie Foundation$10K
- Burgundy Legacy Foundation$10K
- The Bill and Jean Somerville Foundation$10K
- The Peter Gilgan Foundation$5,000
- Howick Foundation /fondation Howick$5,000
- Bernhard Melitz Foundation$5,000
- Externalitator Foundation$5,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions5
- Total compensation, all staff$487K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Thomas Welch (director); Anne Lambert (chair & president); Lauretta Havinga (secretary); Adrian Forsyth (director); Nadine Geddes (director); Phil Otto (director); Diane Macdiarmid (director); Ruthmery Pillco Huarcaya (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from International Conservation Fund of Canada Inc.’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 852478189RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.