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ASPEN VALLEY WILDLIFE SANCTUARY

ASPEN VALLEY WILDLIFE SANCTUARY (Ontario) receives grants from 48 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$2,255,502 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$1,342,393). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
C$1.5M
Funders on record
48
Grants received
C$2.3M
Net assets
C$1.7M
28/48 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 54%
01What it does

What Aspen Valley Wildlife Sanctuary does

Ongoing programs

Permanent residents: aspen valley provides a permanent home to almost 30 animals who have come to us from various situations. Many were born or raised in captivity and were later seized by authorities who then approached aspen valley to provide them with forever homes. Animal in rehabilitation: aspen valley specializes in the rehabilitation of native ontario woldlife. We are the only facility in ontario licensed to rehabilitate moose calves and are one of the few rehabilitation centers equipped with and aquatic facility to house and care for aquatic mammals year-round

As stated on its FY2024 T3010.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 (C$425k) Expenses 100 (C$442k) Net assets 100 (C$735k)2018 Revenue 125 (C$531k) Expenses 111 (C$492k) Net assets 100 (C$735k)2019 Revenue 141 (C$599k) Expenses 125 (C$555k) Net assets 103 (C$756k)2020 Revenue 131 (C$559k) Expenses 139 (C$613k) Net assets 92 (C$673k)2021 Revenue 241 (C$1.0M) Expenses 193 (C$852k) Net assets 117 (C$861k)2022 Revenue 157 (C$667k) Expenses 94 (C$417k) Net assets 116 (C$852k)2023 Revenue 208 (C$885k) Expenses 168 (C$741k) Net assets 135 (C$996k)2024 Revenue 344 (C$1.5M) Expenses 176 (C$779k) Net assets 229 (C$1.7M)
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Revenue (344)Expenses (176)Net assets (229)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from C$1.3M to C$2.2M (+69%).

C$748k
C$801k
C$839k
C$783k
C$946k
C$1.0M
C$1.3M
C$2.2M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 3% · 2020 16% · 2021 4% · 2022 1% · 2023 1% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

60% of ASPEN VALLEY WILDLIFE SANCTUARY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (50% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 121 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−C$17k
’17
C$39k
’18
C$44k
’19
−C$54k
’20
C$171k
’21
C$250k
’22
C$144k
’23
C$684k
’24
13
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

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Listed77686988
Joined·+0+1+3+0+3+1+2
No longer listed·0212022
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose C$73k → C$333k.

Funder
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'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
C$1.3M
C$55k
C$19k
Sgnc Foundationunclassified
C$6k
Takla Foundationunclassified
C$5k
C$5k
C$5k
C$2k
C$2k
funders
15
15
14
15
19
13
25
21

From the CRA filings of ASPEN VALLEY WILDLIFE SANCTUARY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 48 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

ASPEN VALLEY WILDLIFE SANCTUARY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ASPEN VALLEY WILDLIFE SANCTUARY.

60%
largest funder
74%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 58% · 2019 44% · 2020 40% · 2021 48% · 2022 67% · 2023 61% — growing more concentrated.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

39% of ASPEN VALLEY WILDLIFE SANCTUARY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

86% of ASPEN VALLEY WILDLIFE SANCTUARY's grant income comes from Ontario funders.

In-province vs out-of-province, by year

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Ontario out of province

Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$142k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 region is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ASPEN VALLEY WILDLIFE SANCTUARY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 121 animal welfare nonprofits its size.

Operating margin47% · top quartile
Months of reserve13.4mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)19% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 121 animal welfare nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Government revenue ASPEN VALLEY WILDLIFE SANCTUARY reports

Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.

FY2024C$10k
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20
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24
  • 1% of FY2024 revenue
  • As filed, not traced to an award

Organizations like ASPEN VALLEY WILDLIFE SANCTUARY

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every charity on the CRA register — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Ontario

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

82% of spending goes to programs.

Program 82%Management 14%Fundraising 4%

Governance

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board members

Questions and answers

Who funds ASPEN VALLEY WILDLIFE SANCTUARY?
ASPEN VALLEY WILDLIFE SANCTUARY (Ontario) receives grants from 48 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$2,255,502 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$1,342,393). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ASPEN VALLEY WILDLIFE SANCTUARY have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 48 organizations giving C$2,255,502 in grants to ASPEN VALLEY WILDLIFE SANCTUARY, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ASPEN VALLEY WILDLIFE SANCTUARY?
CANADAHELPS CANADON is the largest funder on record, with C$1,342,393 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ASPEN VALLEY WILDLIFE SANCTUARY find more funders?
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These figures are read directly from the CRA's published T3010 data: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 48 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · View the T3010 on the CRA register