Veterinarians Without Borders/veterinaires Sans Frontieres
Charitable organization · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 841469547RR0001 · Animal Welfare · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($9,177,081) as filed with the CRA.
Veterinarians Without Borders/veterinaires Sans Frontieres is a charitable organization based in Ottawa, Ontario, classified by the CRA under animal welfare. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $9.4M in revenue and $9.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 5% from donations, 33% from government, 50% from other charities. In 2024, 29 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.3M.
Compared with 112 animal-welfare charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 60% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 86% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $120,000–159,999 range (3 positions in that band). The charity reported 20 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.8M in 2020 to $9.4M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
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Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $9.4M | $9.2M | $8.1M | $165K | — | $427K |
| 2023 | $6M | $6.1M | $5.3M | $93K | — | $224K |
| 2022 | $2M | $0 | — | — | — | — |
| 2021 | $1.3M | $1.3M | $1.2M | $76K | — | $260K |
| 2020 | $1.8M | $1.7M | $1.5M | $74K | — | $262K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $1.3M from 29 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$425K
- Canadahelps Canadon$425K
- Petsmart Charities of Canada$219K
- United Way of Northwest Territories$60K
- The James A. and Donna-Mae Moore Foundation$40K
- Aqueduct Foundation$27K
- The Eric S. Margolis Family Foundation$23K
- The Fitzhenry Family Foundation$20K
- Canada Gives$20K
- West Vancouver Community Foundation$15K
- Canfel Foundation$10K
- The Peterborough K. M. Hunter Charitable Foundation$10K
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$8,880
- The Ian and Rochelle Laing Family Foundation Inc.$6,000
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$3,100
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$2,122
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$1,925
- BenefAction Foundation$1,600
- Community Foundation for Kingston & Area$1,500
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,300
- Holy Trinity School Educational Network$1,253
- Link Charity Canada Inc$1,080
- Leon Judah Blackmore Foundation$500
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$450
- Centraide Québec Chaudière-Appalaches et Bas-Saint laurent$374
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9993 positions
- $80,000–119,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions20
- Total compensation, all staff$1.6M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jennifer Ogeer (chair); Pete Mosney (vice-chair); Brendan Delehanty (treasurer); Anna Mackay (director); Jolene Giacinti (director); Mouhamadou Diaw (director); Thea Sommerdyk (director); Catherine Belanger (director); Brian Bedard (director); Katinka De-Balogh (director); Deb Stark (director); Patricia Maruschak (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Veterinarians Without Borders/veterinaires Sans Frontieres’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 841469547RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.