Escarpment Biosphere Conservancy Inc.
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 888782570RR0001 · Environment · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,401,928) as filed with the CRA.
Escarpment Biosphere Conservancy Inc. is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under environment. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $4.2M in revenue and $1.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 50% from donations, 37% from government. In 2024, 20 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $876K.
Compared with 50 environmental charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 77% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 83% of that peer group. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 5 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $257K in 2024, the largest being $257K to Greenough and North Bruce Wilderness Alliance Inc.. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $8.7M in 2020 to $4.2M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 14 names.
In its own words
The escarpment biosphere conservancy inc.'s mission is: to establish maintain and manage a system of nature reserves in the area of the niagara escarpment (including the niagara escarpment world biosphere reserve) including the maintenance of physical features of scientific and/or ecological cultural historic or scenic interest; to maintain enhance or restore areas of native species or natural habitat: and to encourage and support scientific research and educational services related thereto. To educate the public about conservation and preservation of the landscape ecology and wildlife…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.2M | $1.4M | $1.3M | $33K | — | $54.2M |
| 2023 | $5.2M | $1.1M | $1M | $759 | — | $51.4M |
| 2022 | $12.4M | $1.3M | $1.2M | $8,996 | — | $47.2M |
| 2021 | $5.3M | $816K | $739K | $63K | — | $36.2M |
| 2020 | $8.7M | $455K | $406K | $28K | — | $31.7M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $257K to 1 qualified donee:
Received $876K from 20 charities:
- Ontario Land Trust Alliance Inc.$539K
- DKM Foundation$100K
- Canadahelps Canadon$51K
- Canadahelps Canadon$51K
- The Douglas A. Smith Family Foundation$50K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$37K
- The Gosling Foundation$10K
- Waterloo Region Community Foundation$10K
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$9,615
- The Birch Island Foundation$5,000
- Nature Canada / Canada Nature$4,108
- Aqueduct Foundation$2,639
- Beatty Family Charitable Foundation Inc.$2,500
- The Ottewell Family Charitable Foundation$2,000
- The Tom and Ruth Kritsch Family Foundation$2,000
- Clark Cawthra Coneybeare Foundation$750
- Link Charity Canada Inc$310
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$205
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$116
- My Tribute Gift Foundation—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions5
- Total compensation, all staff$596K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Beth Anne Currie; Karen Macduffee; Robert Patrick; Roy Jeffery; Sean O'Hare; Natasha Akiwenzie; Rose Coombs; Connor Davis; Dave Harvey; Kate MacKeracher; Bonnie Lendrum; Robert Orland; Chris Smith; Kim Neale.
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Escarpment Biosphere Conservancy Inc.’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 888782570RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.