The Sitka Foundation
Private foundation · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 816109417RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($17,759,261) as filed with the CRA.
The Sitka Foundation is a private foundation based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $21.7M in revenue and $17.8M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 46% from donations. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $1,000.
Compared with 380 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 56% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $250,000–299,999 range. The charity reported 4 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 71 qualified donees totalling $16M in 2024, the largest being $5M to Coast Conservation Endowment Fund Foundation. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $47.1M in 2020 to $21.7M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
The foundation receives and manages funds for the exclusive purpose of making gifts to qualified donees as defined by the income tax act. Selected qualified donees support the conservation of nature and the protection of biodiversity and demonstrate leadership in environmental stewardship.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $21.7M | $17.8M | — | — | $16M | $257.5M |
| 2023 | $21.1M | $13.1M | — | — | $11.7M | $253.6M |
| 2022 | $25M | $5.7M | — | — | $4.2M | $245.6M |
| 2021 | $46.9M | $7.3M | $500K | — | $5.5M | $226.3M |
| 2020 | $47.1M | $5.5M | $500K | — | $4.1M | $186.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $16M to 71 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Coast Conservation Endowment Fund Foundation$5M
- Oceans North Conservation Society$1.5M
- Nature United/ Nature Unie$1.3M
- Makeway Charitable Society$781K
- The Nature Conservancy of Canada$600K
- Panthera Canada$500K
- Simon Fraser University$450K
- The David Suzuki Foundation$425K
- University of Victoria$275K
- The Nature Trust of British Columbia$250K
- CANADIAN PARKS AND WILDERNESS SOCIETY/La Société pour la nature et les parcs du Canada$244K
- West Coast Environmental Law Research Foundation$210K
- Ecojustice Canada Society$210K
- WCS Wildlife Conservation Society Canada$200K
- Raincoast Conservation Foundation$200K
- Comox Valley Land Trust$200K
- Aga Khan Foundation Canada$200K
- Nature Canada / Canada Nature$170K
- Institute for New Economics Public Interest Research Association Inc.$170K
- Vancity Community Foundation$150K
- The Dena Kayeh Institute$150K
- SkeenaWild Conservation Trust$150K
- Gitanyow Huwilp Society$150K
- Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative Foundation$125K
- Federation of British Columbia Naturalists$125K
Received $1,000 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $250,000–299,9991 position
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions4
- Total compensation, all staff$845K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Ross Beaty (president); Patricia Beaty (vice-president); Sarah Otto (director); Nancy Baron (director); Lauren Storer (secretary); Deanna Sim (treasurer).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Sitka Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 816109417RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.