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.
Public foundation — endowment and payout, December 31, 2024
- Receipted donations$117,635
- From other charities$99,385
- Investment income$18,528
- Other gifts$1,049
This ratio is gifts made divided by total assets at year end. It is not the CRA disbursement quota, which is calculated on the average value of property not used in charitable activities and cannot be derived from these filings.
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.