Haliburton Highlands Land Trust
Publicly funded institution · Haliburton, Ontario · BN 852004233RR0001 · Environment · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($237,698) as filed with the CRA.
Haliburton Highlands Land Trust is a charitable organization based in Haliburton, Ontario, classified by the CRA under environment. It appears on the charity register the way hospitals, universities, and other publicly funded bodies do — to issue tax receipts — rather than as a donation-driven charity in the usual sense. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $240K in revenue and $238K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 32% from donations, 60% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 11 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $129K.
Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $40,000–79,999 range. The charity reported 3 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
(1) charitable activities that the charity carries out on its own through employees volunteers or intermediaries and (2) qualifying disbursements that the charity makes through gifts to qualified donees or grants to non-qualified donees (grantees). Charities making qualifying disbursements should describe the types of organizations they support. The charity may also use this space to describe the contributions of its volunteers in carrying out its activities for example number of volunteers and/or hours.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $240K | $238K | — | — | — | $1.8M |
| 2023 | $168K | $152K | $135K | — | — | $1.8M |
| 2022 | $191K | $170K | $150K | $2,976 | — | $1.8M |
| 2021 | $140K | $148K | $126K | $4,839 | — | $1.8M |
| 2020 | $164K | $135K | $117K | $478 | — | $1.8M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $129K from 11 charities:
- Toronto Foundation$30K
- The Schad Foundation$25K
- Canadahelps Canadon$21K
- Canadahelps Canadon$21K
- The McLean Foundation$10K
- Ontario Land Trust Alliance Inc.$5,900
- BenefAction Foundation$5,000
- Canada Gives$3,000
- TD Friends of the Environment Foundation$2,800
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$2,524
- Centre for Land Conservation$2,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- $1–39,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions3
- Total compensation, all staff$87K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Sheila Ziman (director); Mary-Lou Gerstl (director); Joan Duhaime (director); David Bathe (director); Todd Hall (director); Jennifer Dailloux (director); Shelley Hunt (director); Huw Morgan (director); Ralph Baehre (director); Rob Halupka (treasurer); Keith Farlinger (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Haliburton Highlands Land Trust’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 852004233RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.