Marmot Recovery Foundation
Charitable organization · Nanaimo, British Columbia · BN 889980629RR0001 · Animal Welfare · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,052,236) as filed with the CRA.
Marmot Recovery Foundation is a charitable organization based in Nanaimo, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under animal welfare. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.2M in revenue and $1.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 65% from donations, 9% from government, 7% from other charities. In 2024, 16 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $289K.
Compared with 112 animal-welfare charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 35% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 4 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
Species recovery of one of canada's highest priority mammals the critically endangered vancouver island marmot using released captive born and trans-located wild born marmots to improve distribution & population and protect our uniquely canadaina marmot from extinction in the wild.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.2M | $1.1M | $852K | $116K | — | $2.1M |
| 2023 | $1.7M | $1M | $826K | $129K | — | $3.8M |
| 2022 | $1.1M | $902K | $705K | $112K | — | $3.1M |
| 2021 | $1M | $833K | $648K | $127K | — | $2.9M |
| 2020 | $976K | $728K | $538K | $140K | — | $1.7M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $289K from 16 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$117K
- Canadahelps Canadon$117K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$17K
- Gordon and Patricia Gray Animal Welfare Foundation$15K
- Krogseth Foundation$10K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$5,025
- Niagara Action for Animals$2,000
- The Audrey Loeb and David Ross Foundation$2,000
- The Victoria Foundation$1,500
- BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust$1,363
- CN Employees' and Pensioners' Community Fund$844
- BenefAction Foundation$500
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$300
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$250
- Vancouver Foundation$111
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation-$182
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions4
- Total compensation, all staff$570K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Randal Lake (director); Stuart Prescott (secretary-treasurer); Sharon Hadway (director); Sean Pendergast (chair); Dean Prentice (director); Matthew Leroy (director); Jimmie Hodgson (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Marmot Recovery Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 889980629RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.