Wildlife Conservation Society Canada
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FINANCIAL TRANSPARENCY
Audited financial statements for current and previous years available on the charity’s website.
B
RESULTS REPORTING
Grade based on the charity's public reporting of the work it does and the results it achieves.
n/r
DEMONSTRATED IMPACT
The demonstrated impact per dollar Ci calculates from available program information.
NEED FOR FUNDING
Charity's cash and investments (funding reserves) relative to how much it spends on programs in most recent year.
84%
CENTS TO THE CAUSE
For a dollar donated, after overhead costs of fundraising and admin/management (excluding surplus) 84 cents are available for programs.
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Programs
About Wildlife Conservation Society Canada:
Founded in 2004, Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) Canada is the Canadian branch of Wildlife Conservation Society, which operates in over 60 countries. WCS Canada uses scientific research and policy action to help protect wildlife across Canada in areas like the far north of Ontario, the Northern Boreal Mountains of BC and Yukon, and the Arctic Ocean. WCS Canada focuses its research and actions on species such as caribou, wolverines, bats, bison, freshwater fish, and marine animals.
Wildlife Conservation Society Canada reports that its research and actions have led to many conservation successes. These include an expansion of the Nahanni National Park, protection of Yukon’s Peel Watershed, and the creation of Castle Wildland Park in southern Alberta. In Ontario, WCS Canada says it has inspired the provincial government to commit to protection of the far north and to revise endangered species legislation. At the federal level, WCS Canada reports influencing the government’s commitment to reform the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act.
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Finances
Wildlife Conservation Society Canada is a medium-sized charity, with total donations of $3.2m in F2018. Administrative costs are 13% of revenues and fundraising costs are 4% of donations. For every dollar donated, 84 cents go to the cause. This is within Ci’s reasonable range for overhead spending. Funding reserves of $2.4m can cover nine months of annual program costs.
This charity report is an update that has been sent to Wildlife Conservation Society Canada for review. Changes and edits may be forthcoming.
Updated on June 13, 2019 by Lauren Chin.
Financial Review
Fiscal year ending June
|
2018 | 2017 | 2016 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Administrative costs as % of revenues | 12.5% | 11.6% | 10.7% |
| Fundraising costs as % of donations | 3.6% | 1.2% | 1.1% |
| Total overhead spending | 16.1% | 12.7% | 11.7% |
| Program cost coverage (%) | 75.1% | 79.8% | 74.2% |
Summary Financial StatementsAll figures in $s |
2018 | 2017 | 2016 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Donations | 3,202,259 | 3,105,996 | 3,555,921 |
| Government funding | 310,030 | 229,641 | 195,578 |
| Total revenues | 3,512,289 | 3,335,637 | 3,751,499 |
| Program costs | 3,171,750 | 2,823,989 | 2,931,344 |
| Administrative costs | 439,998 | 386,843 | 399,747 |
| Fundraising costs | 114,265 | 35,655 | 37,516 |
| Other costs | 0 | 7,311 | 34,115 |
| Total spending | 3,726,014 | 3,253,798 | 3,402,722 |
| Cash flow from operations | (213,724) | 81,839 | 348,777 |
| Funding reserves | 2,382,087 | 2,253,574 | 2,175,407 |
Note: Ci used fundraising allocations from the charity's T3010 CRA filing as the charity did not report fundraising costs separately from administration costs on its audited financial statements.
Salary Information
$350k + |
0 |
$300k - $350k |
0 |
$250k - $300k |
0 |
$200k - $250k |
0 |
$160k - $200k |
1 |
$120k - $160k |
4 |
$80k - $120k |
5 |
$40k - $80k |
0 |
< $40k |
0 |
Information from most recent CRA Charities Directorate filings for F2018
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Comments & Contact
Comments added by the Charity:
Funding Reserve: WCS Canada does not use deferred revenue but rather runs a fund balance from year to year. The presentation of our annual audited financial statements provides a breakdown of the annual funding reserves into restricted and unrestricted funds. Restricted funds are those that have been granted for a particular program, project or activity and are time limited. They include multi-year grants and one year grants that span multiple fiscal years. At the end of fiscal 2012, restricted funds were $1,017,264 and unrestricted $165,412.
Charity Contact
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