Heartland Forest Nature Experience
Charitable organization · Niagara Falls, Ontario · BN 885642801RR0001 · Public Amenities · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,183,373) as filed with the CRA.
Heartland Forest Nature Experience is a charitable organization based in Niagara Falls, Ontario, classified by the CRA under public amenities. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.1M in revenue and $1.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 14% from donations, 22% from government, 15% from other charities. In 2024, 23 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $254K.
Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (7 positions in that band). The charity reported 18 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $696K in 2020 to $1.1M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 14 names.
In its own words
Environmental projects designed to preserve and protect flora and fauna; environmental projects designed to preserve protect and restore rivers; environmental projects to improve the urban environment educational programs to increase the publics understanding of the environemtn and to educate on the preservation and protection of the environment research conducted related to the environment and to disseminate the results of such research
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.1M | $1.2M | — | $18K | — | $833K |
| 2023 | $1.2M | $1.3M | — | $11K | — | $903K |
| 2022 | $1.2M | $1.2M | $1.2M | $6,762 | — | $1M |
| 2021 | $839K | $771K | $712K | $42K | — | $1M |
| 2020 | $696K | $704K | $664K | $26K | — | $956K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $254K from 23 charities:
- Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de Niagara$33K
- Unity for Autism$30K
- Canadahelps Canadon$25K
- Canadahelps Canadon$25K
- RBC Foundation$20K
- The Retired Teachers of Ontario Foundation$18K
- Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de Niagara$14K
- Fondation RONA$11K
- The Ontario Paper Thorold Foundation$10K
- TD Friends of the Environment Foundation$10K
- The Harry E Foster Charitable Foundation$10K
- Community Foundations of Canada$9,000
- Wise Guys Charity Fund$8,500
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$6,283
- Lloyd Carr-Harris Foundation$5,000
- Canada Post Community Foundation/Fondation Communautaire de Postes Canada$5,000
- ST. Andrew's United Church$3,273
- Hamilton Community Foundation$3,000
- Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de Niagara$3,000
- Waterloo Region Community Foundation$2,000
- Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de Niagara$1,500
- Jack A. Vanderlaan Foundation$1,000
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$30
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9997 positions
- $1–39,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions18
- Total compensation, all staff$791K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jacqueline Burciul (board chair); Ed Nieuwesteeg (vice chairman); Emily Watson (secretary and treasurer); Tim Shafley (director); Steve Murphy (director); Sue Forcier (director); Janie Palmer (director); Chris Coker (director); Donald Sorley (director); Doug Kane (director); Dan Bouwman (founder); Frank Greco (director); Kieron Keegan (director); Ryan Pearson (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Heartland Forest Nature Experience’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 885642801RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.