Wildlife Preservation Canada/conservation de la Faune au Ca Nada
Charitable organization · Guelph, Ontario · BN 891710535RR0001 · Animal Welfare · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,747,912) as filed with the CRA.
Wildlife Preservation Canada/conservation de la Faune au Ca Nada is a charitable organization based in Guelph, Ontario, classified by the CRA under animal welfare. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.7M in revenue and $1.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 23% from donations, 38% from government, 33% from other charities. In 2024, 37 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $653K.
Compared with 112 animal-welfare charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 33% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 92% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 18 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 2 qualified donees totalling $22K in 2024, the largest being $15K to University of Guelph. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
Wildlife preservation canada exists to save animal species at risk from extinction in canada by performing hands-on action for species requiring direct intervention to recover. Wpc build canada's conservation capacity by providing opportunities for canadian conservation scientists to increase their expertise working with species-at-risk and advancing conservation science by developing new methods for species recovery. Our toolkit includes techniques such as conservation breeding head starting and re-introduction. We are the only environmental ngo in canada to provide such hands-on care to mu…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.7M | $1.7M | $1.4M | $195K | $34K | $934K |
| 2023 | $1.5M | $1.6M | $1.1M | $214K | $60K | $949K |
| 2022 | $1.9M | $1.9M | $1.4M | $194K | $209K | $1M |
| 2021 | $1.4M | $1.3M | $1M | $167K | $22K | $1M |
| 2020 | $1.2M | $1.1M | $834K | $152K | $23K | $993K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $22K to 2 qualified donees:
- University of Guelph$15K
- Queen's University$7,438
Received $653K from 37 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$103K
- Canadahelps Canadon$103K
- The Annual Foundation$80K
- RBC Foundation$70K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$34K
- Takla Foundation$32K
- Hodgson Family Foundation$30K
- Alan and Patricia Koval Foundation$30K
- The Westaway Charitable Foundation$25K
- The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation$25K
- Aqueduct Foundation$20K
- The K M Hunter Charitable Foundation$20K
- Gordon and Patricia Gray Animal Welfare Foundation$16K
- The Chawkers foundation$15K
- Toronto Foundation$10K
- BenefAction Foundation$6,570
- Elgin-ST. Thomas Community Foundation$6,400
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$5,000
- Sunset Community Foundation$5,000
- TD Friends of the Environment Foundation$4,900
- David Charitable Trust$2,000
- Holy Trinity School Educational Network$1,873
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$1,250
- United Way of Greater Toronto$1,000
- The Calgary Foundation$1,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9999 positions
- Permanent full-time positions18
- Total compensation, all staff$1.3M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Christopher Boynton (director); Jay Bryant (director); Shripal Doshi (president); Douglas Hart (director); Randal Heide (secretary); Bridget Stuchbury (past president); Julie Wood (director); Tanya Davis (director); Stephen Brobyn (treasurer); Gail Fraser (director); Tom Blackbird (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Wildlife Preservation Canada/conservation de la Faune au Ca Nada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 891710535RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.