ALUS Canada
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 811966324RR0001 · Environment · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($11,083,463) as filed with the CRA.
ALUS Canada is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under environment. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $11.4M in revenue and $11.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 41% from government, 19% from other charities. In 2024, 9 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.1M.
Its highest-paid positions fell in the $120,000–159,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 21 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 39 qualified donees totalling $6.4M in 2024, the largest being $716K to Assiniboine West Watershed District. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $4M in 2020 to $11.4M in 2024.
In its own words
The organization provides a community developed farmer-delivered program to restore enhance and maintain the benefits - commonly called 'ecosystem services' that nature can provide to canadian society. Ecosystem services are services produced by healthy ecosystems and all living things rely on them. The organization's program involves supporting farmers and ranchers to enhance/restore marginal unproductive inefficient or environmentally sensitive lands.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $11.4M | $11.1M | $4.1M | $501K | $6.4M | $1.1M |
| 2023 | $11.3M | $11.1M | $2.9M | $687K | $7.4M | $712K |
| 2022 | $6.4M | $6.3M | $2.2M | $391K | $3.6M | $444K |
| 2021 | $4.3M | $4.4M | $1.8M | $271K | $2.3M | $331K |
| 2020 | $4M | $3.9M | $1.5M | — | $2M | $400K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $6.4M to 39 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Assiniboine West Watershed District$716K
- Saskatchewan Assiniboine Project$633K
- Seine Rat Roseau Watershed District$498K
- Middlesex County$387K
- Norfolk County$356K
- Lambton Stewardship Network$277K
- Peterborough County$264K
- Grey Bruce County$262K
- Montérégie-Saint-Hyacinthe Quebec$257K
- Parkland County$215K
- Vermilion River County$209K
- Bayham/elign County$193K
- Brazeau County$192K
- Red Deer County$188K
- Ontario East County$180K
- Laurentide County$129K
- Wuqwatr (sask)$124K
- Credit Valley Conservation$111K
- Rideau Valley County$104K
- Barrhead County$101K
- Sturgeon County$98K
- Lacombe County$95K
- Chatham Kent County$95K
- Northern Sunrise County$90K
- Upa Outaouais-Larentides$87K
Received $1.1M from 9 charities:
- RBC Foundation$500K
- The Waltons Trust$400K
- Echo Bay Sustainability Fund$50K
- Ducks Unlimited Canada - Canards Illimites Canada$49K
- World Wildlife Fund Canada Fonds Mondial pour la Nature Can Ada$34K
- The Purpleville Foundation$25K
- Canadahelps Canadon$7,708
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$6,212
- London Environmental Institute$516
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9992 positions
- $80,000–119,9998 positions
- Permanent full-time positions21
- Total compensation, all staff$2.4M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from ALUS Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 811966324RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.