Nature United/ Nature Unie
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 836727644RR0001 · Environment · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($22,455,130) as filed with the CRA.
Nature United/ Nature Unie is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under environment. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $23M in revenue and $22.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 83% from donations, 19% from other charities. In 2024, 21 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $5.8M.
Its highest-paid position fell in the $300,000–349,999 range. The charity reported 54 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 31 qualified donees totalling $9.6M in 2024, the largest being $4.5M to Tla O Qui Aht First Nation (public Sector Body). Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $3.8M in 2020 to $23M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 14 names.
In its own words
Nature united is a canadian charity affiliated with the nature conservancy which works globally to conserve the lands and waters on which all life depends. We strive for a world where healthy communities and sustainable development drive locally and globally significant conservation outcomes. We partner with indigenous communities businesses governments and other non-profits to advance pragmatic solutions to significant conservation challenges. Our canadian and global programs include: using science-based research to reduce carbon emissions through forestry agriculture grasslands and oth…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $23M | $22.5M | $9.7M | $831K | $9.6M | $843K |
| 2023 | $10.2M | $9.7M | $4.3M | $986K | $2.6M | $324K |
| 2022 | $6.2M | $6.9M | $3.6M | $508K | $1.4M | -$214K |
| 2021 | $6.2M | $5.3M | $2.8M | $434K | $773K | $539K |
| 2020 | $3.8M | $4.7M | $2.6M | $254K | $541K | -$396K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $9.6M to 31 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Tla O Qui Aht First Nation (public Sector Body)$4.5M
- Kwiakah First Nation$3M
- Coast Conservation Endowment Fund Foundation$779K
- Makeway Foundation$160K
- Kitasoo Band Council (public Sector Body)$117K
- Misipawistik Cree Nation (public Sector Body)$100K
- Gitga at First Nation$88K
- Wuskwi Sipihk First Naiton (public Sector Body)$85K
- Taku River Tlingit First Nation$75K
- Tla'amin Nation$70K
- Kanaka Bar (public Sector Body)$58K
- Takla Lake First Nation$50K
- Nuxalk Nation (public Sector Body)$47K
- Huu at Aht FRST Nation$45K
- T Sou Ke First Nation$40K
- Sapotaweyak Cree Nation (public Sector Body)$40K
- Mistawasis Nehiyawak$40K
- Tlowitsis Tribe (public Sector Body)$30K
- Sahtu Renewable Resources Board$30K
- Mathias Colomb Cree Nation$30K
- Chemawa3win Cree Nation (public Sector Body)$30K
- Bella Bella Community School Society$30K
- Opaskwayak Cree Nation (public Sector Body)$20K
- Westbank First Nation$18K
- Lower Simikameen Indian Band$18K
Received $5.8M from 21 charities:
- Ronald S. Roadburg Foundation$1.5M
- The Sitka Foundation$1.3M
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$1.1M
- RBC Foundation$750K
- The Peter Gilgan Foundation$260K
- Fondation Écho /echo Foundation$200K
- Makeway Foundation$165K
- Weston Family Foundation$100K
- The Houssian Foundation$100K
- Carthy Foundation$100K
- Canadahelps Canadon$71K
- Canadahelps Canadon$71K
- The Nixon Charitable Foundation$25K
- Aqueduct Foundation$21K
- The Peter Gilgan Foundation$10K
- The Peter Gilgan Foundation$10K
- Alan and Patricia Koval Foundation$5,000
- The Dickhout Family Foundation$2,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$1,430
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$250
- The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act$215
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $300,000–349,9991 position
- $250,000–299,9991 position
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9996 positions
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions54
- Total compensation, all staff$6.3M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Florence Eastwood (director); Toni Hardesty (director); Caroline Cathcart (vice chair); Aliya Jasmine Sovani (director); Michael Van Aanhout (director); Sasha Jacob (chair); Susan Millican (director); Alexandra Conliffe (director); Cathy Rustermier (director); Brittanee Laverdure (director); Catherine Macquarrie (director); Michael Vegh (director); Debbie Cervenka (director); Katherine Macmillan (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Nature United/ Nature Unie’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 836727644RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.