World Wildlife Fund Canada Foundation
Public foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 872998471RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($1,928,500) as filed with the CRA.
World Wildlife Fund Canada Foundation is a public foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $921K in revenue and $1.9M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 6% from donations. In 2024, 16 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $43K.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking 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 lower than 100% of that peer group.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $1.8M in 2024, the largest being $1.8M to World Wildlife Fund Canada. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $2.1M in 2020 to $921K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 14 names.
In its own words
The Foundation is a registered Canadian charitable foundation and is the legal body responsible for administering assets donated to be held in trust and other capital funds designated by the Board of Directors. Funds are provided to World Wildlife Fund Canada which collects manages and disburses funds through suitable bodies or individuals for the conservation of fauna flora forests landscapes water soils and other natural resources in Canada and elsewhere by research and investigation education at all levels information and publicity coordination of efforts cooperation with intere…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $921K | $1.9M | $0 | $0 | $1.8M | $18.3M |
| 2023 | $1.5M | $802K | $0 | $0 | $653K | $18.7M |
| 2022 | $1.6M | $739K | $0 | $0 | $591K | $16.5M |
| 2021 | $1.6M | $665K | $0 | $0 | $526K | $19.1M |
| 2020 | $2.1M | $647K | $0 | $0 | $515K | $16M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1.8M to 1 qualified donee:
- World Wildlife Fund Canada$1.8M
Received $43K from 16 charities:
- Fondation Philantra Philantra Foundation$10K
- The Taylor Family Foundation$10K
- Canada Gives$7,600
- Fondation Philantra Philantra Foundation$5,000
- James N. Allan Family Foundation$5,000
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$1,630
- Vancity Community Foundation$1,000
- The Calgary Roman Catholic Separate School Division$796
- BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust$548
- United Way Golden Horseshoe$300
- Tyler Sampson-Silent Hero-Memorial Fund$300
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$253
- Vancity Community Foundation$100
- Centraide Québec Chaudière-Appalaches et Bas-Saint laurent$80
- United Way of Newfoundland and Labrador Inc.$64
- My Tribute Gift Foundation—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Mary MacDonald (chief conservation officer&svp); Supriya Syal (director); Linda Sampson (director); Anne-Marie Boucher (director/chair of governance c); Meena Ballantyne (director/chair of the board); Bruce Poon Tip (director); Megan Leslie (president and ceo); Julie Gelfand (director/chair audit cmt); James Biggar (director); Kluane Adamek (director); John Etherington (director); Gasparro Vincent (director); Tammara Soma (director); Jessica Pathy (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from World Wildlife Fund Canada Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 872998471RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.