The Wilding Foundation
Private foundation · Salt Spring Island, British Columbia · BN 794054205RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($988,881) as filed with the CRA.
The Wilding Foundation is a private foundation based in Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.5M in revenue and $989K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 63% from donations.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 4% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 8 qualified donees totalling $379K in 2024, the largest being $115K to Salt Spring National Art Prize Society. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $4M in 2021 to $1.5M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
The purpose of the foundation is to provide funding to other charities who support the merging of the arts and technology. The foundation aims to support charities focused on programing arts and science initatives as well as the charitable maker community.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2021–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.5M | $989K | — | — | $379K | $4.6M |
| 2023 | $364K | $204K | — | — | $196K | $4.1M |
| 2022 | $32K | $121K | — | — | $105K | $3.9M |
| 2021 | $4M | $13K | — | — | $5,000 | $4M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Private foundation — endowment and payout, December 31, 2024
- Receipted donations$978,086
- Investment income$554,218
This ratio is gifts made divided by total assets at year end. It is not the CRA disbursement quota, which is calculated on the average value of property not used in charitable activities and cannot be derived from these filings.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $379K to 8 qualified donees:
- Salt Spring National Art Prize Society$115K
- Salt Spring Island Public Library Association$100K
- Salt Spring Island Public Library Association$59K
- Graffiti Theatre Company Society$40K
- Centre de services scolaire de Laval$35K
- Le Cube Centre international de recherche et de création en théâtre pour l'enfance et la jeunesse$10K
- Go le Grand Défi inc.$10K
- The Board of Education of School District No. 64 (Gulf Islands)$10K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Ethan Wilding (director); Jasper Gagne (director); Jeremy Seitz (director); Jason Otterbein (director); Jean-Pierre Le Gresley (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Wilding Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 794054205RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.