Escarpment Corridor Alliance
Charitable organization · Collingwood, Ontario · BN 765718309RR0001 · Environment · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($625,297) as filed with the CRA.
Escarpment Corridor Alliance is a charitable organization based in Collingwood, Ontario, classified by the CRA under environment. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $673K in revenue and $625K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 86% from donations. In 2024, 19 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $253K.
Compared with 145 environmental charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 16% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 2 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
The escarpment corridor alliance is dedicated to preserving natural landscapes in south georgian bay. The organization focuses on protecting and expanding green spaces through initiatives such as organizing summits collaborating with government bodies to safeguard more areas and campaigning against development projects that threaten natural habitats.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2023–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $673K | $625K | $362K | $106K | — | $172K |
| 2023 | $266K | $149K | — | — | — | — |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $253K from 19 charities:
- The Norman and Marian Robertson Charitable Foundation$50K
- Toronto Foundation$26K
- Nosreap Family Foundation$25K
- Nosreap Family Foundation$25K
- Butterfield Family Foundation$25K
- RBC Foundation$24K
- Aqueduct Foundation$20K
- The Niagara Escarpment Foundation$18K
- Chisholm Thomson Family Foundation$10K
- Nosreap Family Foundation$5,000
- Burgundy Legacy Foundation$5,000
- Flavelle Family Foundation$5,000
- The Dickhout Family Foundation$5,000
- The John David and Signy Eaton Charitable Foundation$5,000
- BenefAction Foundation$2,000
- Canadahelps Canadon$1,196
- The Rogan Foundation$1,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$677
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$295
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions2
- Total compensation, all staff$158K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Stephen Griggs (chair); Bruce Harbinson (president); Annette Sandberg (director); Michael Robbins (director); David Scoon (director); Martin Rydlo (director); Tom Eisenhauer (director); Dale Biddell (director); Martha McCarthy (director); Ian Whitton (treasurer); Jane Pyper (director); Jarvis Strong (executive director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Escarpment Corridor Alliance’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 765718309RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.