Oceana Canada
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 821618139RR0001 · Environment · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($4,049,853) as filed with the CRA.
Oceana Canada is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under environment. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $4.5M in revenue and $4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 11% from donations, 52% from other charities. In 2024, 32 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $2.5M.
Compared with 50 environmental charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 34% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 75% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $250,000–299,999 range. The charity reported 18 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $2.6M in 2020 to $4.5M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
Oceana canada is an independent charity dedicated solely to ocean conservation. Oceana canada works with civil society academics fishers indigenous peoples and the federal government to return canada's formerly vibrant oceans to health and abundance. Ongoing campaigns: - rebuild ocean abundance (including modernizing canada's fisheries act and rebuilding canada's depleted fish populations) - protect marine habitat - protect north atlantic right whales - stop plastic pollution - protect capelin abundance.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.5M | $4M | $2.6M | $15K | $750K | $1.2M |
| 2023 | $3.7M | $3.5M | $2.8M | $26K | — | $855K |
| 2022 | $3.3M | $3.1M | $2.7M | $2,557 | — | $671K |
| 2021 | $2.8M | $2.5M | $2.2M | $4,870 | — | $530K |
| 2020 | $2.6M | $2.6M | $2.2M | $4,047 | — | $223K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $2.5M from 32 charities:
- The Nikita Foundation$2M
- Environment Funders Canada$112K
- Canadahelps Canadon$107K
- Canadahelps Canadon$107K
- Fondation Écho /echo Foundation$75K
- Airlie Foundation$30K
- Alan and Patricia Koval Foundation$30K
- Young Foundation$10K
- Canada Gives$10K
- The Chêne Foundation$10K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$8,164
- BenefAction Foundation$7,825
- The Calgary Foundation$5,612
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$5,340
- The Langar Foundation$5,000
- Vancity Community Foundation$3,000
- The George Kostiuk Family Private Foundation$3,000
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$2,524
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$2,417
- ATCO Electric Epic$2,002
- La Fondation Rossy The Rossy Foundation$2,000
- Fondation Philantra Philantra Foundation$1,000
- Vancouver Foundation$1,000
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$680
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$532
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $250,000–299,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9994 positions
- $80,000–119,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions18
- Total compensation, all staff$2M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
David Delagran (director); Steven Price (director); Diana Thomson (chair); Valarie Van Cleave (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Oceana Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 821618139RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.