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Registered charity

The Nature Trust of British Columbia

CA-E-Z0KR-N7VHActiveBritish ColumbiaCanada (federal)Vancouver5 independent sources
$40.9MRevenue reported
$17.9MPublic money on record
17On the board
17Organisations connected
3Municipal licences
12Employees reported
5Independent publishers
100/100Evidence depth
October 24, 2026Latest source capture
On the record
Identifier
CA-E-Z0KR-N7VH
Address
500 - 888 Dunsmuir Street, VANCOUVER, BC, V6C 3K4
Earliest record
May 9, 2008
Identifiers held
Charity registration
108089863RR0001
Business number
108089863
Corporation number
535672
odbus-licence
City of Vancouver:22-113580
statcan-odbus
b9d8a6013e8b0f2d414e
Vancouver licence
4495411
Vancouver licence
4642952
Vancouver licence
4860635
Vancouver licence no.
24-113804
Vancouver licence no.
25-135229
Vancouver licence no.
26-138051
Who controls this corporation. Federal corporations must file their Individuals with Significant Control with Corporations Canada. That register is not redistributed here — it can only be searched by corporation name or number, by design, so it cannot become a lookup by a person’s name. Search it directly for corporation number 535672: Corporations Canada — federal corporation search.
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Evidence depth
100/100
Deep record

This 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: 17 organisation connections.

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
100
Operationslicences and operating places
45
Filed disclosurepublic financials and workforce
100
Public moneycontracts, grants and contribution records
85
Public activitypermits and recorded work
0
Relationshipsfiled board and identifier-linked organisations
76
Regulatorydecided public findings
0
Historydated span and recorded events
89

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
RegistrarInstrumentNumberRegisteredStatus
Canada Revenue AgencyRegistered charity108089863RR0001—Registered
Corporations Canada (Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada)Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act535672July 28, 2014Active
Municipal licences (3)
PlaceCategoryNumberFirst issuedStatus
VancouverAssociation or Society4495411November 22, 2023Issued
VancouverAssociation or Society4642952November 19, 2024Issued
VancouverAssociation or Society4860635November 14, 2025Issued

A licence records permission to operate. It is issued by a municipality, not by a corporate registrar, and its presence says the organisation traded at that address on that date — nothing about whether it does today.

Board and officers on record (17)
NamePositionServing sinceStatus
Peter ArmstrongChairJune 27, 2024ended June 12, 2025
Patricia BeatyDirectorJune 27, 2024ended June 12, 2025
Bill CoxTreasurerJune 27, 2024ended June 12, 2025
Rob DoyleDirectorJune 27, 2024ended June 12, 2025
Andrea MacLeodDirectorJune 27, 2024ended June 12, 2025
Justin RoachDirectorJune 27, 2024ended June 12, 2025
John WoodsDirectorJune 27, 2024ended June 12, 2025
Ellen SimmonsDirectorJune 27, 2024ended June 12, 2025
Nancy BaronDirectorJune 27, 2024ended June 12, 2025
Larry KenyonDirectorJune 27, 2024ended June 12, 2025
Brian SpringinoticDirectorJune 27, 2024ended August 27, 2024
Thomas SiskDirectorJune 27, 2024ended June 12, 2025
David SpragueDirectorJune 27, 2024ended June 12, 2025
Jeffery BayDirectorFebruary 14, 2024ended June 12, 2025
Winifred KesslerDirectorFebruary 14, 2024ended June 12, 2025
Emily Griffiths-HamiltonVice-ChairJune 15, 2023ended June 27, 2024
Sarah OttoDirectorJune 15, 2023ended June 27, 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 (17)

1 of them shares more than one name, which is a much stronger link than the rest. Those are listed first.

OrganisationKindNames in common
The Sitka Foundation
CA-E-SYPM-Q18J
Registered charity3
Anglican Communion Partners (Canada) Inc.
CA-E-JG06-4HPB
Registered charity1
Armstrong Family Foundation
CA-E-QSZ4-XJRM
Registered charity1
Burquitlam Senior Housing Society
CA-E-ZM0W-GGYY
Registered charity1
Eastern Ontario Trails Alliance
CA-E-YGC3-C8YG
Registered charity1
Essa and District Agricultural Society
CA-E-M4RP-FCJG
Registered charity1
Hope Bible Church Oakville
CA-E-PS85-QPX3
Registered charity1
Liber Ero Foundation
CA-E-52KF-KG63
Registered charity1
Oliver Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses Oliver British Columbia
CA-E-WYPK-NFD2
Registered charity1
Public Juridic Person Of The St. Joseph's Health System
CA-E-4Z9X-1RXF
Registered charity1
Saskatchewan German Culture Assistance Fund Inc.
CA-E-WBXF-F000
Registered charity1
St Brice's Church
CA-E-S4MN-P2CX
Registered charity1
St Joseph's Home For The Aged
CA-E-SA8T-3WH0
Registered charity1
The Incorporated Synod Of The Diocese Of Algoma
CA-E-6ZD5-9SFR
Registered charity1
Woolwich Community Services
CA-E-0RWM-7CMP
Registered charity1
Yarmouth Public Library And Museum
CA-E-GBNA-3DAK
Registered charity1
Yek W Emtus Foundation
CA-E-WJG6-JWK6
Registered charity1
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.
What it raised and spent — year ended December 31, 2024
Total revenue
$40,949,404
Total spending
$27,017,310
Total assets
$245,968,954
Total liabilities
$18,793,251
Receipted donations
$5,420,122
From other charities
$5,464,992
Charitable programs92.1% · $24.9M · line 5000
Management and administration4.8% · $1.3M · line 5010
Fundraising3.0% · $815K · line 5020
Not broken down in the return0.1% · $23K
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.
Public money on record
Federal contracts
$137,986

across 5 awards, 2018–2025

2018$42K
2021$25K
2025$71K
Paying institutionAwardsValue
Environment and Climate Change Canada4$119,348
National Research Council Canada1$18,638
Federal grants and contributions
$17,768,866

across 47 agreements, 2008–2025

2008$27K
2012$125K
2013$879K
2014$235K
2015$1.6M
2016$296K
2017$359K
2018$36K
2019$31K
2020$33K
2021$39K
2022$5.0M
2023$224K
2024$8.4M
2025$461K
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.
What it does
Trade
Community Association
Licensed as
Association or Society
Industry code
81
North 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
  1. Licence first issued — Association or Society
  2. Federal contract — Environment and Climate Change Canada$22,260
  3. Federal contract — Environment and Climate Change Canada$48,694
  4. Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$7,229
  5. Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$11,565
  6. Federal grant — Environment and Climate Change Canada$441,975
  7. Licence first issued — Association or Society
  8. Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$11,276
  9. Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$5,638
  10. Federal grant — Environment and Climate Change Canada$8,365,375
  11. Licence first issued — Association or Society
  12. Federal grant — Environment and Climate Change Canada$126,667
  13. Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$19,935
  14. Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$9,968
  15. Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$4,984
  16. Federal grant — Environment and Climate Change Canada$62,500
  17. Federal grant — Fisheries and Oceans Canada$5,000,000
  18. Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$10,305
  19. Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$20,609
  20. Federal contract — Environment and Climate Change Canada$25,295
  21. Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$9,708
  22. Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$9,308
  23. Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$9,308
  24. Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$4,654
  25. Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$8,822
  26. Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$4,411
  27. Federal contract — National Research Council Canada$18,638
  28. Federal contract — Environment and Climate Change Canada$23,100
  29. Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$6,901
  30. Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$10,351
  31. Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$11,646
  32. Federal grant — Environment and Climate Change Canada$261,215
  33. Federal grant — Environment and Climate Change Canada$97,465
  34. Federal grant — Environment and Climate Change Canada$206,459
  35. Federal grant — Environment and Climate Change Canada$90,000
  36. Federal grant — Environment and Climate Change Canada$1,173,067
  37. Federal grant — Environment and Climate Change Canada$40,000
  38. Federal grant — Environment and Climate Change Canada$360,000
  39. Federal grant — Environment and Climate Change Canada$27,265
  40. Federal grant — Environment and Climate Change Canada$35,000

Showing the 40 most recent of 48 dated events.

Why this is one record

8 public datasets from 5 independent publishers describe this organisation. They were joined into one record because the evidence below agreed — never on a matching name alone.

  • Shares business number 108089863
    asserted by Canada Revenue Agency and Corporations Canada (Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada)
  • Same name and postal code V6C 3K4
    asserted by Canada Revenue Agency and Corporations Canada (Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada) and Statistics Canada and City of Vancouver
  • Same name and address — 500 888 dunsmuir, vancouver, BC
    asserted by Canada Revenue Agency and Corporations Canada (Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada)
  • Same name and address — 888 dunsmuir, vancouver, BC
    asserted by Statistics Canada and City of Vancouver

An automatic merge requires a shared business number, or a matching name AND address — never a name by itself. How resolution works.

Where this record comes from
DatasetLast capturedCadenceCoverage keptHealth
Registered charities — directors and officers (2024 returns)
Canada Revenue Agency · Open Government Licence – Canada
September 2, 2026P1Y1 captures · 0 comparisonscurrent
Registered charities — financial data (2024 returns)
Canada Revenue Agency · Open Government Licence – Canada
September 5, 2026P1Y1 captures · 0 comparisonscurrent
Registered charities — identification (2024 returns)
Canada Revenue Agency · Open Government Licence – Canada
September 8, 2026P1Y2 captures · 1 comparisonscurrent
Proactive publication — federal contracts over $10,000
Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat · Open Government Licence – Canada
September 1, 2026P3M1 captures · 0 comparisonscurrent
Federal corporations — active not-for-profit, co-operative and boards of trade
Corporations Canada (Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada) · Open Government Licence – Canada
October 24, 2026P1D11 captures · 10 comparisonsdue
Proactive disclosure — federal grants and contributions
Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat · Open Government Licence – Canada
September 3, 2026P3M1 captures · 0 comparisonscurrent
Open Database of Businesses — version 1
Statistics Canada · Open Government Licence – Canada
———not measured
Vancouver business licences
City of Vancouver · Open Government Licence – Vancouver
October 15, 2026P1M3 captures · 1 comparisonscurrent
Freshness is measured, not implied. “Last captured” is when this project last completed a read of the whole source dataset. “Coverage kept” is how many immutable captures and meaningful capture-to-capture comparisons are available. A missed day remains an explicit gap; a later snapshot cannot tell us what happened inside it. See every source.

This page is assembled from open data. It is not an official record, and the registrar is authoritative where the two disagree. How records are assembled.

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