Walker Wood Foundation
Publicly funded institution · Halifax, Nova Scotia · BN 832849947RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,375,175) as filed with the CRA.
Walker Wood Foundation is a private foundation based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, classified by the CRA under teaching institutions. It appears on the charity register the way hospitals, universities, and other publicly funded bodies do — to issue tax receipts — rather than as a donation-driven charity in the usual sense. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $9.7M in revenue and $2.4M in expenditures.
Compared with 1,247 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 92% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 75 qualified donees totalling $2.3M in 2024, the largest being $235K to Dalhousie University. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
To receive and maintain a fund or funds and to apply all or part of the principal and income therefrom from time to time as gifts to qualified donees under the income tax act.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $9.7M | $2.4M | $125 | $546 | $2.3M | $54.7M |
| 2023 | $3.9M | $2.3M | $118 | $225 | $2.3M | $47.3M |
| 2022 | -$3.5M | $1.6M | — | $7,924 | $1.6M | $45.7M |
| 2021 | $18.3M | $932K | $6,431 | — | $918K | $50.9M |
| 2020 | $7.3M | $747K | — | — | $608K | $33.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $2.3M to 75 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Dalhousie University$235K
- Fredericton Community Services Inc.$200K
- Souls Harbour Rescue Mission$100K
- The Governing Council of the University of Toronto$95K
- Hope for Wildlife Society$70K
- Nova Scotia Community College Foundation$68K
- Acadia University$63K
- Wilfrid Laurier University$59K
- Boundless Adventures Association$55K
- Mount Allison University$55K
- The Governors of ST. Francis Xavier University$54K
- The Georgetown Hospital Foundation$52K
- Feed Nova Scotia Society$50K
- The Halifax Grammar School$45K
- University of Prince Edward Island$45K
- Seneca College of Applied Arts & Technology$40K
- The Conestoga College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning$40K
- Chebucto Community Development Association$40K
- Cancer Assistance Services of Halton Hills$40K
- Acclaim Health and Community CARE Services$40K
- Lions Foundation of Canada Dog Guides/fondation des Lions du Canada Chien-Guides$35K
- Brigadoon Children's Camp Society$35K
- Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning$34K
- Family SOS Association$31K
- The Toronto Humane Society$30K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Ninfa Camba (director treasurer); Susan Wood (director president); Kate Wood (director vice-president).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Walker Wood Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 832849947RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.