Credit Valley Conservation Authority
Publicly funded institution · Mississauga, Ontario · BN 106992175RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($36,659,323) as filed with the CRA.
Credit Valley Conservation Authority is a charitable organization based in Mississauga, Ontario, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. 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 December 31, 2024, it reported $38.1M in revenue and $36.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 87% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 4 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $479K.
Compared with 115 community-service institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 34% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 211 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
Credit Valley Conservation Authority (CVCA) is one of 36 Conservation Authorities in Ontario with a mandate to ensure Ontario’s water land and natural habitats are conserved restored and responsibly managed through watershed-based programs which include water resources management and restoration watershed stewardship and natural heritage conservation lands management conservation areas programming corporate communications and environmental advisory services.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $38.1M | $36.7M | $32.3M | — | — | $62.9M |
| 2023 | $39.6M | $35.8M | $31.4M | — | — | $61.9M |
| 2022 | $36.3M | $33.9M | $29.9M | — | — | $58.1M |
| 2021 | $37.3M | $31.5M | $27.5M | — | — | $55.5M |
| 2020 | $32.3M | $29.2M | $25M | — | — | $49.7M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $479K from 4 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9999 positions
- Permanent full-time positions211
- Total compensation, all staff$23.2M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Dipika Damerla (director); Tom Adams (director); Michael Dehn (director); Stephen Dasko (director); Christina Early (director); Ann Lawlor (vice chair); Matt Mahoney (director); Dennis Keenan (director); Michael Palleschi (chair); Fred Nix (director); Alvin Tedjo (director); Andy MccIntosh (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Credit Valley Conservation Authority’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 106992175RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.