The Fort Whyte Foundation Inc.
Charitable organization · Winnipeg, Manitoba · BN 119298123RR0001 · Animal Welfare · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($4,623,929) as filed with the CRA.
The Fort Whyte Foundation Inc. is a charitable organization based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, classified by the CRA under animal welfare. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $5.5M in revenue and $4.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 33% from donations, 6% from government, 19% from other charities. In 2024, 26 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.2M.
Compared with 112 animal-welfare charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 25% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 37 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 14 names.
In its own words
We provide programming natural settings and facilities for environmental education outdoor recreation social enterprise and awareness and understanding of the natural land and sustainable living.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $5.5M | $4.6M | $3.6M | $330K | — | $6.4M |
| 2023 | $10M | $4.3M | $3.3M | $320K | $20K | $5.9M |
| 2022 | $7.8M | $3.8M | $2.8M | $282K | $106K | $5.5M |
| 2021 | $5.6M | $3.1M | $2.3M | $289K | $46K | $5.4M |
| 2020 | $5.3M | $2.8M | $2.1M | $254K | $24K | $5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $1.2M from 26 charities:
- The Winnipeg Foundation$685K
- Carolyn Sifton Foundation Incorporated$100K
- GiftPact Foundation Inc.$68K
- The Pollard Family Foundation Inc.$50K
- RBC Foundation$50K
- TELUS Friendly Future Foundation$50K
- Graham C. Lount Family Foundation Inc.$40K
- BenefAction Foundation$25K
- TD Friends of the Environment Foundation$21K
- Canadahelps Canadon$16K
- Beatty Family Charitable Foundation Inc.$15K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$12K
- Honda Canada Foundation$10K
- The Peter Gilgan Foundation$10K
- Andison Family Foundation Inc.$10K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$5,000
- Abundance Canada$4,500
- Trans Canada trail / Sentier transcanadien$4,000
- Value Partners Charitable Foundation Inc.$2,000
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$1,500
- Link Charity Canada Inc$1,000
- Aqueduct Foundation$1,000
- Canada Gives$700
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$650
- First Unitarian Universalist Church of Winnipeg Inc$542
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
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9998 positions
- Permanent full-time positions37
- Total compensation, all staff$2.6M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Tammy Johnson (trustee); Tanis Ostermann (past chairperson); C. Wilson (president & ceo trustee); Brian Postl (trustee); Deborah Grenier (trustee); Jane Johnston (vice chairperson & secretary); Nora Casson (trustee); Sharon Macdonald (trustee); Ryan Mitchell (chairperson); Lauren Parrish (trustee); Shea Hunt (trustee); Kyle Friesen (treasurer); Theresa Rogers (trustee); Sprague Richardson (trustee).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Fort Whyte Foundation Inc.’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119298123RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.