Huronia Museum
Publicly funded institution · Midland, Ontario · BN 118965805RR0001 · Public Amenities · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($413,530) as filed with the CRA.
Huronia Museum is a charitable organization based in Midland, Ontario, classified by the CRA under public amenities. 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 $363K in revenue and $414K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 65% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $144.
Compared with 686 public-amenity institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 23% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 85% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (4 positions in that band). The charity reported 5 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
Huronia museum continued to deliver quality education programs both curriculum-based and mandate based. Programming continued to trend along with outreach becoming an even more popular option both in schools and with community interest groups. The museum continued to offer programming in its facility encouraging visitation with its usual programming such as the summer programming for children easter programming learning workshops and general public programming. The collections department continued to make additions to the museum’s collection. The museum’s curator also continued to audit the…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $363K | $414K | $273K | $24K | — | $227K |
| 2023 | $365K | $342K | — | $15K | — | $305K |
| 2022 | $298K | $343K | $200K | $4,804 | — | $370K |
| 2021 | $309K | $312K | $226K | $551 | — | $443K |
| 2020 | $370K | $310K | — | — | — | $424K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $144 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9994 positions
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions5
- Total compensation, all staff$289K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Rachel Pendlebury (chair); Isobel Ball (vice chair); Olivia Stanley (director); Jonathan Main (director); Colin Shirriff (treasurer); Kimberly Nightingale (director); Robert Laco (secretary); Cathy Scott (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Huronia Museum’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118965805RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.