Canadian Wildlife Federation
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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.
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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.
63%
CENTS TO THE CAUSE
For a dollar donated, after overhead costs of fundraising and admin/management (excluding surplus) 63 cents are available for programs.
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Programs
About Canadian Wildlife Federation:
Founded in 1962, Canadian Wildlife Federation (CWF) works to conserve and inspire conservation of Canadian wildlife and land so people can use and enjoy it. CWF works with people, corporations, NGOs, and governments to accomplish its mission. It uses science-based information when developing its policies and programs. CWF reports that it engaged over 670,000 people and reached about 3 million people in 2018. Its programs include conservation and education.
CWF’s conservation programs work to strengthen wildlife populations and restore wildlife habitat. CWF breaks its conservation initiatives into four categories: endangered species & biodiversity, lakes & rivers, coasts & oceans, and forests & fields. In F2018, CWF’s programs to protect freshwater turtles produced 4,517 hatchlings. In F2018, the Love Your Lake shoreline program assessed 7,031 shoreline properties on 41 lakes in Ontario, Saskatchewan, and Alberta. This program helps landowners naturalize their shorelines.
CWF’s education programs hope to inspire future generations to develop a passion for wildlife conservation. In F2017, over 13,600 people participated in CWF’s WILD Family Nature Club that provides social activities and tools for young families. The charity’s WILD Migrations Program trains educators to become certified instructors of wildlife activities. Lastly, CWF’s public service announcements aired over 21,000 times throughout the year.
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Results and Impact
Ci chose to highlight the following results.
CWF’s petition in 2016 calling for more research into harmful effects of plastic in oceans has resulted in the federal government banning most toiletries with plastic microbeads. CWF’s saving turtles at risk today program researched areas where turtles are at the highest risk of being hit by vehicles. The findings resulted in 35 km2 of wetlands becoming protected.
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Finances
Charity Intelligence consolidated CWF with its associated Foundation in the following financial analysis. Transfers between the two charities are not reported as revenues or expenses.
Canadian Wildlife Federation is a large charity with total donations of $14.4m in F2018. Administrative costs are 5% of revenues and fundraising costs are 32% of donations. For every dollar donated to the charity, 63 cents go to the cause. This is outside Ci’s reasonable range for overhead spending. CWF has funding reserves of $12.3m of which, $427k is donor-endowed. Excluding donor-endowed funds, the charity’s reserves can cover program costs for just over 7 months.
This charity report is an update that has been sent to Canadian Wildlife Federation for review. Changes and edits may be forthcoming.
Updated on July 19, 2018 by Stefan Tetzlaff.
Financial Review
Fiscal year ending February
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2018 | 2017 | 2016 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Administrative costs as % of revenues | 5.2% | 7.7% | 7.1% |
| Fundraising costs as % of donations | 32.2% | 33.1% | 31.2% |
| Total overhead spending | 37.4% | 40.8% | 38.3% |
| Program cost coverage (%) | 64.3% | 87.2% | 80.5% |
Summary Financial StatementsAll figures in $000s |
2018 | 2017 | 2016 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Donations | 14,406 | 15,300 | 15,538 |
| Goods in kind | 8,348 | 2,381 | 2,282 |
| Government funding | 1,325 | 750 | 758 |
| Fees for service | 1,590 | 901 | 1,107 |
| Investment income | 162 | 235 | 278 |
| Other income | 183 | 203 | 226 |
| Total revenues | 26,014 | 19,770 | 20,189 |
| Program costs | 19,058 | 12,637 | 12,293 |
| Administrative costs | 1,333 | 1,505 | 1,416 |
| Fundraising costs | 4,638 | 5,060 | 4,845 |
| Total spending | 25,029 | 19,202 | 18,554 |
| Cash flow from operations | 985 | 568 | 1,635 |
| Capital spending | 72 | 362 | 77 |
| Funding reserves | 12,252 | 11,024 | 9,898 |
Note: Ci removed amortization from administrative expenses reducing administrative expenses by $152k in F2018, $156k in F2017, and $147k in F2016. Ci removed gain on sale of tangible assets reducing total revenues by $105k in F2018.
Salary Information
$350k + |
0 |
$300k - $350k |
0 |
$250k - $300k |
0 |
$200k - $250k |
0 |
$160k - $200k |
1 |
$120k - $160k |
2 |
$80k - $120k |
7 |
$40k - $80k |
0 |
< $40k |
0 |
Information from most recent CRA Charities Directorate filings for F2018
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