Georgian Bay Forever
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 895311066RR0001 · Public Amenities · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,036,638) as filed with the CRA.
Georgian Bay Forever is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under public amenities. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.1M in revenue and $1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 50% from donations, 19% from government. In 2024, 31 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $296K.
Compared with 414 public-amenity charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 32% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 9 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $649K in 2020 to $1.1M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 15 names.
In its own words
Continued the water level monitoring program continue to work with working partners on wetlands research program continued to monitor water quality and invasive species continued with the climate resilience in coastal wetlands project continued conferences workshops and seminars to alert people about water protection issue continued to work with us and canadian great lakes engos on the climate resilience and extreme low water level
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.1M | $1M | $761K | $135K | — | $827K |
| 2023 | $1M | $935K | $678K | $131K | — | $780K |
| 2022 | $1.1M | $1.1M | $851K | $120K | — | $702K |
| 2021 | $1.2M | $957K | $708K | $125K | — | $748K |
| 2020 | $649K | $591K | $385K | $95K | — | $477K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $296K from 31 charities:
- Hodgson Family Foundation$75K
- RBC Foundation$50K
- The Veritas Foundation/La Fondation Veritas$20K
- Barry and Laurie Green Family Charitable Trust$13K
- Toronto Foundation$12K
- Canadahelps Canadon$10K
- The Peter and Melanie Munk Charitable Foundation$10K
- Aqueduct Foundation$10K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$10K
- The McLelland Foundation$10K
- The Langar Foundation$10K
- Burgundy Legacy Foundation$7,000
- The Anthony and Amie Munk Foundation$6,500
- BenefAction Foundation$6,000
- The Dickhout Family Foundation$6,000
- F. K. Morrow Foundation$5,000
- Airlie Foundation$5,000
- The Birch Island Foundation$5,000
- Walter and Duncan Gordon Charitable Foundation$5,000
- The Jim Meekison & Carolyn Keystone Foundation$5,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$3,313
- The Morrison Foundation$3,000
- The Rogan Foundation$2,500
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$2,370
- United Way of Greater Toronto$1,019
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
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- $1–39,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions9
- Total compensation, all staff$728K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Terry Clark (chair); Adam Chamberlain (director); Joe Tucker (treasurer); Doug Heintzman (director); Neil Hutchinson (director); Jennifer Frew (director); Will Thomson (director); Anne Neary (director); Sally Leppard (director); Margaret Hastings (director); Mike Green (director); Grant McGimpsey (director); David Sweetnam (executive director); Robert Turner (director); Kelly Mawinney (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Georgian Bay Forever’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 895311066RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.