Wildsight
Charitable organization · Kimberley, British Columbia · BN 134892496RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-09-30. Split of total expenditures ($2,407,876) as filed with the CRA.
Wildsight is a charitable organization based in Kimberley, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. In its fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, it reported $2.4M in revenue and $2.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 33% from donations, 6% from government, 23% from other charities. In 2024, 30 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $560K.
Compared with 299 community-service charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 61% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 13 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $974K in 2020 to $2.4M in 2024.
In its own words
1. Provide educational programs to schools 2. Community sustainability work through programs such as: food sustainability (gardening composting workshops) environmental educations (movies) clean air campaigns 3. Outdoor awareness and appreciation programs such as wild nature tours go wild creston valley bird festival 4. Organize seminars/public events/conferences with expert speakers on environmental topics and films; 5. Conduct scientific studies and ongoing monitoring e.g. Water monitoring forest health monitoring 6. Present reasoned studies on environmental protection and its relatio…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.4M | $2.4M | $1.8M | $59K | $351K | $839K |
| 2023 | $2.1M | $1.9M | $1.6M | $41K | $55K | $800K |
| 2022 | $2M | $1.9M | $1.7M | $39K | — | $632K |
| 2021 | $1.5M | $1.4M | $1.1M | $57K | — | $519K |
| 2020 | $974K | $954K | $742K | $28K | — | $388K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $560K from 30 charities:
- The Sitka Foundation$105K
- Audain Foundation$100K
- The Houssian Foundation$80K
- The McLean Foundation$50K
- RBC Foundation$40K
- The Trottier Family Foundation/la Fondation Familiale Trottier$35K
- Aqueduct Foundation$30K
- Makeway Foundation$27K
- United Way British Columbia$19K
- TELUS Friendly Future Foundation$15K
- ATCO Electric Epic$10K
- Canada Gives$10K
- The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act$10K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$5,350
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$5,250
- Community Foundation of the Kootenay Rockies$4,363
- Canadahelps Canadon$4,219
- Viewpoint Foundation$2,000
- Le Roi Community Foundation$1,500
- Osprey Community Foundation$1,500
- Trinity United Church$1,000
- Columbia Valley Community Foundation$1,000
- The Canfor Good Things Come From Trees Foundation$500
- BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust$454
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$320
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 positions13
- Total compensation, all staff$1M
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 Wildsight’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 134892496RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.