Pacific Wild Alliance
Charitable organization · Victoria, British Columbia · BN 859807828RR0001 · Environment
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,769,928) as filed with the CRA.
Pacific Wild Alliance is a charitable organization based in Victoria, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under environment. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $3.5M in revenue and $1.8M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 14% from donations. In 2024, 19 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $820K.
Compared with 50 environmental charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 91% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 14 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
1. Save bc wolves - our goal is to ensure that wolves have adequate habitat to continue their critical role as a keystone species. 2. Protect pacific herring - we are working with central coast communities to highlight the importance of herring while also advocating for an end to the unsustainable kill fishery so that stocks can rebuild an a locallybasedspawn-on-kelp fishery can flourish. 3. Marine protection - industrial shipping fishing pressure forest destruction net pen salmon farms and climate change all threaten to destablilize the coastal ecosystem of the of the great bear rainfore…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.5M | $1.8M | $1.7M | $124K | — | $3.4M |
| 2023 | $1.5M | $1.7M | $1.6M | $239K | $500 | $1.6M |
| 2022 | $1.5M | $1.5M | $873K | $107K | $2,500 | $1.8M |
| 2021 | $1.6M | $1.3M | $901K | $110K | $44K | $1.8M |
| 2020 | $2.8M | $1.3M | $729K | $267K | $25K | $1.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $820K from 19 charities:
- The Annual Foundation$550K
- Power to Give Foundation$195K
- Canadahelps Canadon$13K
- The Firstline Foundation$10K
- The Shawana Foundation$10K
- The Shawana Foundation$10K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$6,996
- James N. Allan Family Foundation$5,000
- Vancouver Foundation$5,000
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$5,000
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$3,638
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$1,500
- Redpoll Foundation$1,056
- The Calgary Foundation$1,000
- Conam Charitable Foundation$1,000
- The Victoria Foundation$1,000
- Abundance Canada$800
- BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust$557
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$144
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- $1–39,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions14
- Total compensation, all staff$786K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Gregory Thompson (director); Sean Newton (director); Thomas McPherson (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Pacific Wild Alliance’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 859807828RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.