Western Canada Wilderness Committee
Charitable organization · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 119293009RR0001 · Support of Schools and Education · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-04-30. Split of total expenditures ($3,633,217) as filed with the CRA.
Western Canada Wilderness Committee is a charitable organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under support of schools and education. In its fiscal year ending April 30, 2024, it reported $4M in revenue and $3.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 70% from donations, 22% from other charities. In 2024, 45 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $996K.
Compared with 632 education 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 (3 positions in that band). The charity reported 34 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $2.6M in 2020 to $4M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
The wilderness committee continued our work to preserve wilderness protect wildlife defend parks safeguard public resources and fight for a healthy climate. This past year we published and distributed our educational wild canada at-risk species and spaces calendar 6 of our educational newspapers and expert research reports and mapping projects covering national and regional environmental issues. Our field program included trips to at-risk wilderness areas in bc manitoba and ontario and partnership with first nations across the country on critical issues facing the land. We held in-p…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4M | $3.6M | $2.2M | $878K | — | $1.4M |
| 2023 | $3.3M | $3.3M | $2M | $859K | — | — |
| 2022 | $3M | $2.8M | — | — | — | $974K |
| 2021 | $2.9M | $2.5M | $1.5M | $631K | — | $789K |
| 2020 | $2.6M | $2.8M | $1.6M | $793K | — | $416K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $996K from 45 charities:
- Weston Family Foundation$200K
- Aqueduct Foundation$127K
- Vancouver Foundation$123K
- The Victoria Foundation$123K
- The Annual Foundation$100K
- Canadahelps Canadon$80K
- Canadahelps Canadon$80K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$41K
- The Firstline Foundation$25K
- The Fitzhenry Family Foundation$20K
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$11K
- Canada Gives$10K
- Ecology First Foundation$10K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$7,056
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$6,760
- BenefAction Foundation$5,550
- David Charitable Trust$5,000
- BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust$2,802
- ZLC Foundation$2,500
- Olympia Charitable Foundation$2,000
- Larkspur Foundation$2,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,415
- Link Charity Canada Inc$1,000
- KMC Foundation$1,000
- Stroh Charitable Foundation$1,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- $40,000–79,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions34
- Total compensation, all staff$2.6M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Kevin Millsip (director); Nayeli Jimenez (vice chair); Susan Howatt (chair); Mariwan Jaaf (treasurer); Ryann Miller (secretary); Caitlin Stockwell (director); Heather Fast (director); Saya Masso (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Western Canada Wilderness Committee’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119293009RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.