Friends of the Muskoka Watershed
Charitable organization · Bracebridge, Ontario · BN 815686043RR0002 · Environment · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($105,010) as filed with the CRA.
Friends of the Muskoka Watershed is a charitable organization based in Bracebridge, Ontario, classified by the CRA under environment. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $126K in revenue and $105K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 53% from donations, 16% from government, 24% from other charities. In 2024, 9 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $49K.
Compared with 145 environmental charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 14% of peers. None of its ten highest-paid positions cleared $40,000. The charity reported 2 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $382K in 2022 to $126K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
We identify environmental threats develop practical science-based solutions and connect with policy-makers to put these solutions in place. We also cultivate an awareness of these threats and solutions through educational outreach within the Muskoka. Ash Muskoka phase two - exploration of the use of wood ash to restore the damages that declining calcium levels have caused in Muskoka's Forests. Road salt negatively impacts the water quality within the watershed. In turn its also harmful to the local wildlife such as fish birds turtles and frogs. We are conducting water sampling and stud…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2022–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $126K | $105K | $57K | $8,389 | — | $34K |
| 2023 | $280K | $364K | $269K | $5,327 | — | $13K |
| 2022 | $382K | $367K | $285K | $2,494 | — | $97K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $49K from 9 charities:
- Chisholm Thomson Family Foundation$20K
- The Northpine Foundation$10K
- Fondation Écho /echo Foundation$10K
- Canadahelps Canadon$2,577
- The Macdonald Griffin Charitable Foundation$2,556
- The Lang Family Foundation$2,500
- The Midloch Foundation$1,000
- Andrew Daniels Fish Stewardship Foundation$500
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$123
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $1–39,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions2
- Total compensation, all staff$54K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Michelle de Meel (director); Peter Kelley (vice chair director); Lenore Innis (chair director); Norman Yan (secretary director); Gordon Miller (director); Andrew Wagner-Chazalon (director); Neil Hutchinson (director); Jim Davis (director); Doug Clark (treasurer).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Friends of the Muskoka Watershed’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 815686043RR0002), or read how we compute the receipt.