The Consecon Foundation
Private foundation · Wellington, Ontario · BN 830918298RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,646,328) as filed with the CRA.
The Consecon Foundation is a private foundation based in Wellington, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $11.4M in revenue and $1.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 31% from donations.
Compared with 380 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 31% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 2 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 15 qualified donees totalling $790K in 2024, the largest being $200K to Clean Prosperity Foundation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.4M in 2020 to $11.4M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
The Consecon Foundation provides funding to qualified donees and eligible non-qualified donees in the areas of climate environmental conservation and wildlife protection. In addition to providing grants the Consecon Foundation undertakes programming in four key program areas all related to climate environmental conservation and wildlife protection. These areas are: advancing alternative proteins; carbon management through negative carbon emissions innovative approaches to wildlife conservation and improving environmental education.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $11.4M | $1.6M | $252K | — | $1M | $35.8M |
| 2023 | $2.9M | $1.6M | $184K | — | $1.1M | $26M |
| 2022 | -$1.9M | $1.2M | — | — | $753K | $24.8M |
| 2021 | $2M | $1.1M | — | — | $695K | $27.9M |
| 2020 | $1.4M | $1.1M | — | — | $638K | $27M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $790K to 15 qualified donees:
- Clean Prosperity Foundation$200K
- Toronto Zoo Wildlife Conservancy$100K
- Clean Economy Fund$90K
- Environment Funders Canada$80K
- Charities Aid Foundation Canada$50K
- Mars Discovery District$50K
- Gord Martineau Foundation$50K
- The Earth Rangers Foundation$50K
- Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative Foundation$50K
- CANADIAN PARKS AND WILDERNESS SOCIETY/La Société pour la nature et les parcs du Canada$25K
- Quinte Region Natural History Museum$10K
- EcoSchools Canada$10K
- Nature Québec$10K
- Prince Edward County Community Foundation$10K
- Reaching for Rainbows Children's Program$5,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions2
- Total compensation, all staff$237K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Geoffrey Burt (trustee); Lauren Burt (trustee); Alexander Harbin (trustee).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Consecon Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 830918298RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.