Edmonton and Area Land Trust
Publicly funded institution · Edmonton, Alberta · BN 854701356RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($222,284) as filed with the CRA.
Edmonton and Area Land Trust is a charitable organization based in Edmonton, Alberta, classified by the CRA under foundations. 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 $3.6M in revenue and $222K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 9% from donations, 91% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 13 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $706K.
Compared with 47 grantmaking institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 24% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. None of its ten highest-paid positions cleared $40,000. The charity reported 6 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $498K in 2020 to $3.6M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
The edmonton and area land trust continued its work to secure and steward ecologically-important lands that support biodiversity habitat connectivity and ecosystems in edmonton and area. During the fiscal year we worked with landowners on land donations and conservation easements conducted monitoring and maintenance of our conservation lands and egaged volunteers in stewardship activities. We continued our outreach and communications activities to engage landowners and the general public in land conservation and stewardship. We receive donations grants and endowment funds which supporte…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.6M | $222K | $173K | — | — | $16.4M |
| 2023 | $1.8M | $1.1M | $1M | — | — | $13M |
| 2022 | $1.1M | $746K | $643K | — | — | $12.4M |
| 2021 | $662K | $541K | $466K | — | — | $11.8M |
| 2020 | $498K | $617K | $552K | — | — | $10.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $706K from 13 charities:
- The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act$582K
- TD Friends of the Environment Foundation$55K
- Canadahelps Canadon$25K
- Canadahelps Canadon$25K
- Value Partners Charitable Foundation Inc.$10K
- The Alberta Fish and Game Association$3,465
- John Maude and Susan Quinn Charitable Foundation$2,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$1,042
- United Way of the Alberta Capital Region$629
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$500
- United Way of Greater Toronto$250
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$244
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$58
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $1–39,9996 positions
- Permanent full-time positions6
- Total compensation, all staff$118K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Hendrik Kruger (director); Rudy Zacharias (secretary); Don Phillipon (director); Emily Kolodychuk (president); Laurie Scott (treasurer); Sandra Meidinger (director); Kristin Mayner (director); Rebecca Goodenough (vice president); Jordan Erker (director); Jorden Laskosky (director); Liza Piper (director); Tina Thomas (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Edmonton and Area Land Trust’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 854701356RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.