Ontario Wildlife Foundation
Charitable organization · Peterborough, Ontario · BN 889283412RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($157,574) as filed with the CRA.
Ontario Wildlife Foundation is a charitable organization based in Peterborough, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $149K in revenue and $158K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 95% from donations. In 2024, 5 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $17K.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 30% of peers.
It reported gifts to 12 qualified donees totalling $107K in 2024, the largest being $30K to Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters Foundation. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
The owf continued to fund a variety of programs in 2024. Funds were once again provided to the invasive species centre the atlantic salmon restoration project (ofah) the peterborough children's wter festival and watersheds canada for ecological environmental education programs.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $149K | $158K | — | $20K | $118K | $119K |
| 2023 | $103K | $134K | — | $29K | $83K | $127K |
| 2022 | $115K | $174K | — | $20K | $131K | $159K |
| 2021 | $250K | $133K | — | $23K | $90K | $218K |
| 2020 | $128K | $125K | — | $24K | $81K | $101K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $107K to 12 qualified donees:
- Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters Foundation$30K
- Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters Foundation$25K
- The Nature Conservancy of Canada$10K
- The Nature Conservancy of Canada$7,000
- Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters Foundation$6,325
- Trout Unlimited Canada$6,000
- The Owl Foundation$5,000
- Oak Ridges Moraine Land Trust$5,000
- The Halton Region Conservation Foundation$5,000
- Watersheds Canada$5,000
- Friends of Ecological and Environmental Learning$1,600
- Peterborough Green-Up Association$1,500
Received $17K from 5 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
John Ford (president); Rob Hare (director); Angelo Lombardo (sec/treasurer); Randy Jennings (director); Lezlie Goodwin (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Ontario Wildlife Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 889283412RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.