Toronto Wildlife Centre
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 141146290RR0001 · Animal Welfare · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($4,765,597) as filed with the CRA.
Toronto Wildlife Centre is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under animal welfare. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $5.8M in revenue and $4.8M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 83% from donations, 8% from other charities. In 2024, 42 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $780K.
Compared with 112 animal-welfare charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 14% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (5 positions in that band). The charity reported 45 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $3M in 2020 to $5.8M in 2024.
In its own words
As the busiest wildlife centre in the country every day communities rely on Toronto Wildlife Centre (TWC) for help. Staffed and equipped specially for wildlife medicine TWC's wildlife emergency hospital is the only one of its kind in the country. The team is made up of experienced veterinarians and veterinary technicians as well as veterinary specialists who volunteer their time to save wild animals. TWC's wildlife hotline is the busiest in Canada handling approximately 30 000 calls each year regarding a large range of wildlife issues. Trained in ice rescue swift water rescue tree clim…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $5.8M | $4.8M | $3.4M | $791K | — | $4.1M |
| 2023 | $6.4M | $4.5M | $3M | $735K | — | $3.1M |
| 2022 | $4.7M | $3.9M | $2.6M | $411K | — | $2.7M |
| 2021 | $5.7M | $3.1M | $2.1M | $410K | — | $1.8M |
| 2020 | $3M | $2.9M | $1.9M | $359K | — | -$758K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $780K from 42 charities:
- The Eric S. Margolis Family Foundation$150K
- Abundance Canada$100K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$87K
- Canadahelps Canadon$80K
- Canadahelps Canadon$80K
- The Schad Foundation$50K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$27K
- Hodgson Family Foundation$25K
- Mississauga Foundation$20K
- Kenneth M. Molson Foundation$20K
- Aqueduct Foundation$17K
- The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation$15K
- Takla Foundation$15K
- Temerty Foundation$15K
- BenefAction Foundation$12K
- The Bradstreet Family Foundation$10K
- Weston Family Foundation$10K
- Toronto Ornithological Club$5,984
- Brampton and Caledon Community Foundation$5,303
- The Halatsis Family Foundation$5,000
- Boland Foundation$5,000
- United Way of Greater Toronto$4,302
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$3,077
- Canada Gives$3,000
- R&M Lang Foundation$2,500
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9995 positions
- $40,000–79,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions45
- Total compensation, all staff$3.7M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Toronto Wildlife Centre’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 141146290RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.