Registered charity
The Calgary Zoological Society
Legal name on the register: THE CALGARY ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY
CA-E-3QHY-CJRMFormerCanada (federal)2 independent sources
$77.3MRevenue reported
$4.6MPublic money on record
19On the board
12Organisations connected
2Independent publishers
70/100Evidence depth
September 8, 2026Latest source capture
On the record
- Identifier
- CA-E-3QHY-CJRM
- Address
- 1300 ZOO RD NE, CALGARY, AB, T2E 7V6
- Earliest record
- November 10, 2005
Identifiers held
- Charity registration
- 118824192RR0001
- Business number
- 118824192
Evidence depth
70/100
Layered recordThis scores the depth of the public evidence assembled here. It does not score the organisation’s quality, reputation, solvency or risk. The formula is fixed and reproducible. See the formula.
Identityregistrations and identifiers
Operationsmunicipal licences
Filed figuresfinancials or workforce
Public moneycontracts or grants
Relationshipsfiled board or organisation links
Qualificationsstanding offers or supply arrangements
Public activitypermits and recorded work
Regulatorydecided findings
Dated historyevents with effective dates
Additional graph evidence outside the score: 12 organisation connections · 1 same-address neighbours.
Public footprint · version 1
Where this organisation appears in public records
Eight independent dimensions describe the size and shape of the evidence. They are deliberately not added into one company score: a licence, a grant, a director filing and a court finding mean different things.
Footprint is not performance.
A larger bar means more public records of that kind. It does not mean better, worse, safer, larger, more profitable or more reputable.
Identityregistries, identifiers and corroboration
60
Operationslicences and operating places
0
Filed disclosurepublic financials and workforce
60
Public moneycontracts, grants and contribution records
70
Public activitypermits and recorded work
0
Relationshipsfiled board and identifier-linked organisations
79
Regulatorydecided public findings
0
Historydated span and recorded events
73
Each dimension uses fixed, logarithmic caps so one dataset with thousands of repeated rows cannot drown out every other fact. Read the formula and limits.
Registrations
| Registrar | Instrument | Number | Registered | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canada Revenue Agency | Registered charity | 118824192RR0001 | — | Registered |
Board and officers on record (19)
| Name | Position | Serving since | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cindy Ady | DIRECTOR | May 26, 2025 | current |
| Nuvyn Peters | DIRECTOR | May 26, 2025 | current |
| Harvey Doerr | DIRECTOR | May 27, 2024 | current |
| Jeff Hart | DIRECTOR | May 27, 2024 | current |
| Sonya Savage | DIRECTOR | May 27, 2024 | current |
| Renate Weller | DIRECTOR | May 27, 2024 | current |
| Laura Gill | DIRECTOR | May 29, 2023 | current |
| Thomas Lui | TREASURER | May 30, 2022 | current |
| Rachel Moore | DIRECTOR | May 30, 2022 | current |
| Karen Prentice | DIRECTOR | May 31, 2021 | current |
| Perry Spitznagel | DIRECTOR | May 31, 2021 | current |
| Barb Carra | DIRECTOR | May 27, 2019 | current |
| Denise Hamilton | DIRECTOR | May 27, 2019 | current |
| Jennifer Koury | BOARD CHAIR | May 28, 2018 | current |
| Sheila O'brien | DIRECTOR | May 28, 2018 | current |
| Jason Clifton | BOARD VICE-CHAIR | May 15, 2017 | current |
| Bill Fisher | SECRETARY | May 15, 2017 | current |
| Hunter Wight | DIRECTOR | May 15, 2017 | current |
| Oliver Ho | FORMER DIRECTOR | May 29, 2023 | ended October 31, 2024 |
Filed by the charity itself with the Canada Revenue Agency, under the Open Government Licence. This is the narrowest slate the source publishes — name, position, and tenure only; no address, phone, or email exists in the file to withhold. Why this is published and directors’ home addresses never are.
Organisations sharing a filed director name (12)
1 of them shares more than one name, which is a much stronger link than the rest. Those are listed first.
| Organisation | Kind | Names in common |
|---|---|---|
| Wilder Institute CA-E-NY3K-AGCB | Registered charity | 19 |
| Art Gallery Of Alberta Society CA-E-KG6D-DTSZ | Registered charity | 1 |
| Lambton Young Theatre Players CA-E-WQ34-V2BQ | Registered charity | 1 |
| National Music Centre CA-E-W4JD-1YC1 | Registered charity | 1 |
| Our Lady Seat Of Wisdom Academy For Studies In Christian Culture CA-E-WM0C-FQKD | Registered charity | 1 |
| Ralph Connor Memorial United Church CA-E-JEFB-MDJ7 | Registered charity | 1 |
| Rapport Choirs Of North Bay CA-E-EGR3-K7DV | Registered charity | 1 |
| Ronald Mcdonald House Alberta Society CA-E-8EPC-NXN0 | Registered charity | 1 |
| St Andrews' United Church CA-E-1EGW-AGDZ | Registered charity | 1 |
| Starratt Family Foundation CA-E-3R6G-7ZXY | Registered charity | 1 |
| The Canadian Centre to End Human Trafficking CA-E-ZQ5V-4NQS | Registered charity | 1 |
| The Fraser Institute CA-E-K2B6-X22B | Registered charity | 1 |
One name in common is a lead. Two is a link. These come from the director names each organisation filed with the Canada Revenue Agency, matched exactly as filed, and two people can share a name — across the whole corpus 95% of these rest on a single name, so a single match is genuinely weak evidence and is presented as such rather than dressed up. Two of the same names on the same pair of boards is a different matter: coincidence stops being a plausible explanation. A name appearing on more than eight boards is discarded outright as a probable collision.
The link is between organisations and carries only a count. Which people sit on which board stays on each organisation’s own page, exactly as the CRA published it, and there is deliberately no way here to search by a person or to list what one individual is involved in. Why that line is drawn there.
The link is between organisations and carries only a count. Which people sit on which board stays on each organisation’s own page, exactly as the CRA published it, and there is deliberately no way here to search by a person or to list what one individual is involved in. Why that line is drawn there.
At the same address (1)
Organisations that filed the same street address and suite as this one, 1300 ZOO RD NE.
| Organisation | Kind |
|---|---|
| Wilder Institute CA-E-NY3K-AGCB | Registered charity |
A shared door is not always a shared purpose. Sharing an address can mean one organisation with several registered arms, a building a sector clusters in, or simply a landlord. It is a fact about where filings were sent, not a claim about who controls whom.
Addresses used here are only ones already published on these pages: where a single publisher asserts an address it is coarsened to a locality, because a registered office is very often somebody’s home. And where 25 or more organisations share one door — a registered agent or a law firm — no connection is drawn at all, because at that point the address describes the agent rather than the organisations. How address precision is decided.
Addresses used here are only ones already published on these pages: where a single publisher asserts an address it is coarsened to a locality, because a registered office is very often somebody’s home. And where 25 or more organisations share one door — a registered agent or a law firm — no connection is drawn at all, because at that point the address describes the agent rather than the organisations. How address precision is decided.
What it raised and spent — year ended December 31, 2024
- Total revenue
- $77,314,439
- Total spending
- $60,540,147
- Total assets
- $222,130,507
- Total liabilities
- $17,386,911
- Receipted donations
- $1,151,264
- From other charities
- $4,588,138
- Granted onward
- $8,005,305
Charitable programs86.3% · $52.3M · line 5000
Management and administration9.9% · $6.0M · line 5010
Fundraising3.8% · $2.3M · line 5020
These are the charity’s own figures. They come from the T3010 return it filed with the Canada Revenue Agency, which is a statement the organisation makes about itself rather than an audit or an assessment of it. They are also a single year: a charity that received a capital gift, sold a building, or ran a campaign will look unlike itself.
A low share spent on programs is not by itself evidence of anything. Fundraising costs money, a year of building a reserve looks like underspending, and grant-making foundations pass money onward rather than running programs. The lines are shown as filed, with the CRA line numbers, so a reader can check them against the return.
A low share spent on programs is not by itself evidence of anything. Fundraising costs money, a year of building a reserve looks like underspending, and grant-making foundations pass money onward rather than running programs. The lines are shown as filed, with the CRA line numbers, so a reader can check them against the return.
Public money on record
Federal contracts
$207,982
across 2 awards, 2005–2006
| Paying institution | Awards | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Canadian Heritage | 1 | $173,565 |
| Parks Canada | 1 | $34,417 |
Federal grants and contributions
$4,413,193
across 5 agreements, 2006–2024
| Paying institution | Awards | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Prairies Economic Development Canada | 2 | $2,750,000 |
| Environment and Climate Change Canada | 1 | $1,562,992 |
| Employment and Social Development Canada | 2 | $100,201 |
Value as published, not money paid. The federal contract value field includes the ceiling of standing offers and supply arrangements — purchasing capacity a department may never draw on. A large figure here can mean a large ceiling rather than a large payment.
Awards are attached to this record only where the evidence identifies exactly one organisation: a name and postal area that narrow to a single company, or a name unique across the whole national corpus. Proactive publication truncates the vendor postal code to three characters, so anything that could belong to more than one company is left unattached rather than guessed at. Totals are a floor in that direction. The full rules.
Awards are attached to this record only where the evidence identifies exactly one organisation: a name and postal area that narrow to a single company, or a name unique across the whole national corpus. Proactive publication truncates the vendor postal code to three characters, so anything that could belong to more than one company is left unattached rather than guessed at. Totals are a floor in that direction. The full rules.
What it does
- Industry code
- 712130North American Industry Classification System
Trade and licence class are the publisher’s own words, kept as written rather than mapped onto a vocabulary of this site’s invention — a Calgary “RESTAURANT” and a Montréal “Restaurant service rapide” describe the same thing and are not the same string, and pretending otherwise would put words in a city’s mouth. The industry code is the exception: NAICS is a standard shared across Canada, the United States and Mexico, so it means the same thing wherever it appears. Only some publishers assign one.
Timeline
- Federal grant — Environment and Climate Change Canada$1,562,992
- Federal grant — Prairies Economic Development Canada$2,000,000
- Federal grant — Prairies Economic Development Canada$750,000
- Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$45,608
- Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$54,593
- Federal contract — Canadian Heritage$173,565
- Federal contract — Parks Canada$34,417
Where this record comes from
| Dataset | Last captured | Cadence | Coverage kept | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Registered charities — directors and officers (2024 returns) Canada Revenue Agency · Open Government Licence – Canada | September 2, 2026 | P1Y | 1 captures · 0 comparisons | current |
| Registered charities — financial data (2024 returns) Canada Revenue Agency · Open Government Licence – Canada | September 5, 2026 | P1Y | 1 captures · 0 comparisons | current |
| Registered charities — identification (2024 returns) Canada Revenue Agency · Open Government Licence – Canada | September 8, 2026 | P1Y | 2 captures · 1 comparisons | current |
| Proactive publication — federal contracts over $10,000 Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat · Open Government Licence – Canada | September 1, 2026 | P3M | 1 captures · 0 comparisons | current |
| Proactive disclosure — federal grants and contributions Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat · Open Government Licence – Canada | September 3, 2026 | P3M | 1 captures · 0 comparisons | current |
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