Niagara Action for Animals
Charitable organization · ST Catharines, Ontario · BN 858683188RR0001 · Animal Welfare · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($260,942) as filed with the CRA.
Niagara Action for Animals is a charitable organization based in ST Catharines, Ontario, classified by the CRA under animal welfare. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $69K in revenue and $261K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 48% from donations. In 2024, 4 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $17K.
Compared with 430 animal-welfare charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 54% of peers.
It reported gifts to 29 qualified donees totalling $162K in 2024, the largest being $15K to Etobicoke Humane Society. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $112K in 2020 to $69K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
Spay/neuter adoption and animals in distress programs assisting low income individuals with their pets vet care
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $69K | $261K | $86K | — | $162K | $137K |
| 2023 | $295K | $85K | — | — | $11K | $341K |
| 2022 | $62K | $86K | $77K | — | $8,500 | $137K |
| 2021 | $99K | $91K | $91K | — | — | $181K |
| 2020 | $112K | $108K | $108K | — | — | $180K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $162K to 29 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Etobicoke Humane Society$15K
- Burlington Humanes Society$15K
- Hobbitstee Wildlife Refuge$10K
- Zoocheck Canada Incorporated$10K
- Pacific Orca Society$10K
- Niagara Falls Community Cats$8,000
- Port Colborne Feline Initiative$8,000
- Animal Assistance Society of the Niagara Region$8,000
- My Grandfather's Cat$7,000
- Pumpkin's Acres Rabbit Rescue$5,000
- Farmhouse Garden Animal Home$5,000
- Interior Wildlife Rehabilitation Society$5,000
- Aspen Valley Wildlife Sanctuary$5,000
- Amazon Rainforest Conservancy$5,000
- Story Book Farm Primate Sanctuary$5,000
- La Fondation Quebecoise Fauna/the Quebec Fauna Foundation$5,000
- Urban Wildlife Care$5,000
- Turtle Pond Wildlife Centre$5,000
- North Mountain Animal Sanctuary Society$3,500
- Meriscope$3,500
- Refuge RR pour Chevaux$3,500
- Promised Land Animal Sanctuary$3,500
- Sweet Sanctuary Animal Rescue$3,000
- Kawartha Turtle Trauma Centre$2,558
- Manitoba Bear Rehabilitation Centre Inc.$2,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Catharine Els (secretary); Lisa Murray (president); Kristin Goodwin (treasurer).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Niagara Action for Animals’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 858683188RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.