Nature-Based Solutions Foundation
Public foundation · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 743624538RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($516,253) as filed with the CRA.
Nature-Based Solutions Foundation is a public foundation based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $411K in revenue and $516K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 29% from donations, 24% from other charities. In 2024, 9 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $111K.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 24% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 2 qualified donees totalling $120K in 2024, the largest being $110K to Ditidaht First Nation.
In its own words
Protecting canada's most endangered ecosystems by acquiring and managing funds to address key funding gaps through: supporting land-embedded communities and qualified donees with grants and facilitating access to other funding sources to undertake activities in support of establishing new protected areas (such as land-use planning management and stewardship programs etc); purchasing private lands for new protected areas; engaging supporting and collaborating with groups and communities to develop conservation projects.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2022–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $411K | $516K | $240K | $73K | $120K | $0 |
| 2023 | $684K | $860K | $464K | $13K | $330K | $469K |
| 2022 | $586K | $175K | $110K | $5,378 | $30K | $645K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $120K to 2 qualified donees:
- Ditidaht First Nation$110K
- Nature Conservancy of Canada$10K
Received $111K from 9 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Nature-Based Solutions Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 743624538RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.