Friends of the Rouge Watershed Inc.
Charitable organization · Scarborough, Ontario · BN 888781028RR0001 · Environment · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($270,169) as filed with the CRA.
Friends of the Rouge Watershed Inc. is a charitable organization based in Scarborough, Ontario, classified by the CRA under environment. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $284K in revenue and $270K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 50% from donations, 50% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 6 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $60K.
Compared with 145 environmental charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 68% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 2 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $130K in 2020 to $284K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
Friends of the rogue watershed involves thousands of school community and corporate volunteers in evironmental education and actions to protect and restore watershed ecosystem and human health. We protect natural areas and we plant thousands of native trees shrubs and flowers to restore forest wetland and meadow habitats and combat climate change flooding pollution and biodiversity-loss.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $284K | $270K | $250K | — | — | $29K |
| 2023 | $258K | $269K | $249K | — | — | $15K |
| 2022 | $240K | $219K | $199K | — | — | $47K |
| 2021 | $174K | $187K | $167K | — | — | $19K |
| 2020 | $130K | $117K | $98K | — | — | $39K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $60K from 6 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions2
- Total compensation, all staff$133K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Kevin O'Connor (president); Neera Shukla (vice president); Gloria Boxen (treasurer); Nida Rashid (secretary); Hasveenah Manoharan (board member); Sujeethan Vigneswaran (board member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Friends of the Rouge Watershed Inc.’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 888781028RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.