Alternative Land Use Services (Alus) Norfolk
Publicly funded institution · Simcoe, Ontario · BN 810739185RR0001 · Environment · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($720,409) as filed with the CRA.
Alternative Land Use Services (Alus) Norfolk is a charitable organization based in Simcoe, Ontario, classified by the CRA under environment. It appears on the charity register the way hospitals, universities, and other publicly funded bodies do — to issue tax receipts — rather than as a donation-driven charity in the usual sense. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $719K in revenue and $720K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 73% from government, 23% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $15K.
Compared with 83 environmental institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 24% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $40,000–79,999 range. The charity reported 2 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $1.2M in 2022 to $719K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
The association is a non-profit non-taxable entity with the mandate to provide support to farmers to create a healty working landscape that sustains agriculture wildlife and natural spaces. The association obtained the charitable status on august 20 2022 from cra.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2022–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $719K | $720K | $552K | — | — | $189K |
| 2023 | $729K | $626K | $494K | — | — | $298K |
| 2022 | $1.2M | $1.2M | $1.1M | — | — | $194K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $15K from 2 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions2
- Total compensation, all staff$121K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Cynthia Brink (director); Anita Buehner (vice-chair/director); Steve Buehner (director); Josef Csoff (chair/director); Kyle Hiebert (director); Morgan Van Laeken (secretary/director); Chris Van Paassen (treasurer/director); Chris Verhoeve (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Alternative Land Use Services (Alus) Norfolk’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 810739185RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.