Northern Lights Wildlife Society
Charitable organization · Smithers, British Columbia · BN 879681518RR0001 · Animal Welfare · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,560,084) as filed with the CRA.
Northern Lights Wildlife Society is a charitable organization based in Smithers, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under animal welfare. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.9M in revenue and $1.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 95% from donations. In 2024, 30 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.7M.
Compared with 112 animal-welfare charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 67% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 79% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (5 positions in that band). The charity reported 8 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $719K in 2020 to $1.9M in 2024.
In its own words
Wildlife rehabilitation services public education with respect to wildlife conducts research on wildlife
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.9M | $1.6M | $1.4M | $63K | — | $2.9M |
| 2023 | $1.7M | $1.3M | $1.3M | $34K | — | $2.5M |
| 2022 | $1.5M | $834K | — | $43K | — | $2.2M |
| 2021 | $1.1M | $601K | — | $20K | — | $1.5M |
| 2020 | $719K | $488K | — | — | — | $1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $1.7M from 30 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$705K
- Canadahelps Canadon$705K
- Aqueduct Foundation$130K
- Brian and Beverley de La Mothe Family Foundation$80K
- Krogseth Foundation$50K
- Ewald Family Foundation$17K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$10K
- BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust$8,630
- Vancouver Foundation$6,200
- The Calgary Foundation$6,000
- Canada Gives$6,000
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$2,596
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$2,107
- Vancity Community Foundation$2,000
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$1,700
- The Grant Macewan Charitable Foundation 2002$1,500
- Leon Judah Blackmore Foundation$1,500
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,080
- The Valhalla Wilderness Society$1,000
- BenefAction Foundation$1,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$675
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$314
- CN Employees' and Pensioners' Community Fund$300
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$250
- United Way of Greater Moncton and Southeastern New Brunswick Region Inc.\centraide de la Region du Grand Moncton et du Sud Est du Nouveau-New Brunswick Inc.$234
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions8
- Total compensation, all staff$318K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Northern Lights Wildlife Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 879681518RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.