The Donkey Sanctuary of Canada
Charitable organization · Puslinch, Ontario · BN 138721253RR0001 · Animal Welfare · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,716,186) as filed with the CRA.
The Donkey Sanctuary of Canada is a charitable organization based in Puslinch, Ontario, classified by the CRA under animal welfare. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $2.4M in revenue and $1.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 81% from donations. In 2024, 28 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $151K.
Compared with 112 animal-welfare charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 2% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 11 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
1) rescuing animals 2) use of sanctuary and animals as part of a 'living classroom' 3) life skills and companion animal program for special needs youth and adults 4) providing a lifelong home to rescued animals
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.4M | $1.7M | $691K | $158K | — | $9.8M |
| 2023 | $1.8M | $1.6M | $593K | $165K | — | $9.1M |
| 2022 | $5M | $1.4M | $1M | $172K | — | $9.4M |
| 2021 | $2.1M | $1.2M | $890K | $145K | — | $5.7M |
| 2020 | $1.8M | $1.1M | $803K | $144K | — | $4.8M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $151K from 28 charities:
- United Way Niagara$40K
- Canadahelps Canadon$33K
- Canadahelps Canadon$33K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$13K
- The Eric S. Margolis Family Foundation$5,000
- BenefAction Foundation$4,400
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$4,000
- Aqueduct Foundation$3,000
- Canada Gives$3,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$2,430
- The Guelph Community Foundation$2,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,250
- United Way of Greater Toronto$1,050
- The Walmley Foundation$1,000
- R&M Lang Foundation$750
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$537
- Abundance Canada$500
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$425
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$312
- Guelph/wellington Seniors Association$250
- Toronto Foundation$250
- Brampton and Caledon Community Foundation$164
- United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes$150
- Toronto District School Board$123
- Guelph Horticultural Society$100
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9997 positions
- $1–39,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions11
- Total compensation, all staff$757K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Doug Brock (director); Valerie Gibaut (director); Katharin Harkins (vice chair); Rukhsar Jaffer (director); Doug Morris (director); Sandra Pady (chair); Sheila Zanyk (secretary); David Pady (treasurer).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Donkey Sanctuary of Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 138721253RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.