Kawartha Region Conservation Authority
Publicly funded institution · Lindsay, Ontario · BN 107559726RR0001 · Public Amenities · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($4,074,978) as filed with the CRA.
Kawartha Region Conservation Authority is a charitable organization based in Lindsay, 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 $4.2M in revenue and $4.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 6% from donations, 78% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 5 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $60K.
Compared with 276 public-amenity institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 4% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $120,000–159,999 range (3 positions in that band). The charity reported 30 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Kawartha conservation is a watershed-based non-profit organization established in 1979 by the municipalities within our watershed under the ontario conservation authorities act. We are one of 36 conservation authorities operating in ontario and a member of conservation ontario balancing environmental capacity and human need we manage natural resource features that are essential for sustaining water quality and quantity through watershed planning stewardship environmental monitoring and research and management of conservation and natural areas our programs and services are focused within …
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.2M | $4.1M | $603K | — | — | $8.2M |
| 2023 | $4M | $3.9M | $588K | — | $610 | $5.5M |
| 2022 | $3.5M | $3.2M | $539K | — | $550 | $5.4M |
| 2021 | $3.7M | $3.4M | $2.6M | — | — | $4.5M |
| 2020 | $3.1M | $2.8M | $1.9M | — | — | $4.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $60K from 5 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9993 positions
- $80,000–119,9994 positions
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions30
- Total compensation, all staff$2.8M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Robert Rock (director); Tracy Richardson (director); Gerry Byrne (director); Peter Franzen (director); Cria Pettingill (director); Lloyd Rang (director); Eric Smeaton (director); Pat Warren (chair); Harold Wright (vice-chair).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Kawartha Region Conservation Authority’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 107559726RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.