The Owl Foundation
Charitable organization · Vineland Station, Ontario · BN 124315094RR0001 · Animal Welfare
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($514,828) as filed with the CRA.
The Owl Foundation is a charitable organization based in Vineland Station, Ontario, classified by the CRA under animal welfare. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $811K in revenue and $515K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 36% from donations, 28% from other charities. In 2024, 29 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $260K.
Compared with 414 animal-welfare charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 44% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (3 positions in that band). The charity reported 3 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $482K in 2020 to $811K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
Research rehabilitation and breeding of owls
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $811K | $515K | $453K | $11K | — | $3.8M |
| 2023 | $1.7M | $476K | $415K | $10K | — | $3.6M |
| 2022 | $497K | $444K | $385K | $11K | — | $2.3M |
| 2021 | $762K | $377K | $322K | $7,107 | — | $2.2M |
| 2020 | $482K | $453K | $354K | $7,934 | — | $1.9M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $260K from 29 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$85K
- Canadahelps Canadon$85K
- The Fitzhenry Family Foundation$20K
- Canada Gives$10K
- Gordon and Patricia Gray Animal Welfare Foundation$10K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$6,417
- Aqueduct Foundation$5,636
- Sickkids Charitable Giving Fund$5,000
- The Eric S. Margolis Family Foundation$5,000
- Ontario Wildlife Foundation$5,000
- Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de Niagara$4,650
- BenefAction Foundation$2,500
- United Way of Greater Toronto$2,255
- Julia Coey Memorial Foundation$2,000
- The Barron Cowan Foundation$2,000
- The Ontario Paper Thorold Foundation$1,500
- Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de Niagara$1,500
- Toronto Foundation$1,350
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$1,002
- The Calgary Foundation$1,000
- The McLean Foundation$1,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$882
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$400
- Link Charity Canada Inc$400
- South Peel Naturalists' Club$200
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions3
- Total compensation, all staff$177K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Mark Davies (1st vice chair); Win Laar (director); Roderick Macfadyen (chair/treasurer/ceo/sec.); Ian Magee (second vice chair); Myra Kennedy (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Owl Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 124315094RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.