Credit Valley Conservation Foundation
Charitable organization · Meadowvale, Ontario · BN 118879048RR0001 · Public Amenities · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($778,640) as filed with the CRA.
Credit Valley Conservation Foundation is a charitable organization based in Meadowvale, Ontario, classified by the CRA under public amenities. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $686K in revenue and $779K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 44% from donations, 17% from government, 35% from other charities. In 2024, 14 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $301K.
Compared with 1,296 public-amenity charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 23% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 75% of that peer group.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $469K in 2024, the largest being $469K to Credit Valley Conservation Authority. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
Conservation youth corps - environmental/conservation focused volunteer opportunities for local youth. * memorial forest - partnership with local funeral home for implementation & care of a memorial forest on conservation land. * cvc foundation endowment fund. * signature event series: gala canoe the credit bass derby. * land securement campaign - efforts to secure lands that will provide natural heritage protection apperception and recreational benefits for healthy ecosystems and healthy communities. * credit valley trail - spanning over 100 kilometers the credit valley trail will pr…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $686K | $779K | — | $16K | $469K | $1.2M |
| 2023 | $1.9M | $1.8M | — | $96K | $1.5M | $1.3M |
| 2022 | $902K | $154K | — | $50K | — | $1.2M |
| 2021 | $1.9M | $1.8M | $20K | $88K | $1.6M | $968K |
| 2020 | $926K | $802K | $8,753 | $25K | $642K | $744K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $469K to 1 qualified donee:
Received $301K from 14 charities:
- RBC Foundation$70K
- Green Municipal Fund$49K
- Trans Canada trail / Sentier transcanadien$40K
- Canadahelps Canadon$29K
- Canadahelps Canadon$29K
- TD Friends of the Environment Foundation$25K
- Leslois Shaw Foundation$25K
- Mississauga Foundation$13K
- Takla Foundation$10K
- Aqueduct Foundation$4,702
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$3,173
- Canada Gives$2,000
- BenefAction Foundation$562
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$20
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Ed Arundell (board member/chair); Bob Atkinson (board member/vice chair); Dave Dyce (board member); Johanna Chevalier (board member); Brad Fauteux (board member); Jim Muscat (board member/past chair); Jean Williams (board member); Alvin Tedjo (board member); Quentin Hanchard (secretary treasurer); Michael Palleschi (board member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Credit Valley Conservation Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118879048RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.