Lesser Slave Watershed Council
Publicly funded institution · High Prairie, Alberta · BN 826078966RR0001 · Environment · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($555,393) as filed with the CRA.
Lesser Slave Watershed Council is a charitable organization based in High Prairie, Alberta, 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 March 31, 2024, it reported $419K in revenue and $555K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 77% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $10K.
Compared with 83 environmental institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 18% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 2 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $244K in 2020 to $419K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 18 names.
In its own words
Delivery of environmental education programs; water quality monitoring and reporting to stakeholders; engaging with landowners to implement projects that improve watershed health and function; engaging with stakeholders to discuss and address watershed management challenges.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $419K | $555K | $345K | — | — | -$5,706 |
| 2023 | $385K | $397K | $333K | — | — | -$9,532 |
| 2022 | $451K | $377K | — | — | — | $2,349 |
| 2021 | $313K | $316K | — | — | $1,000 | $1,250 |
| 2020 | $244K | $265K | — | — | — | $4,221 |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $10K from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions2
- Total compensation, all staff$166K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Todd Bailey (director); Tammy Kaleta (vice chair); Shane Knutson (director); Susan Nielsen (director); Jim Zabolotinuk (director); Tyler Airth (director); Nona Elliott (director); Jamie Bruha (director); Nicole St. Jean (chair); Keith Denoncourt (director); Grant Utas (director); Norm Seatter (director); Lynn Smith (director); Cori Klassen (treasurer); Reva Jaycox (director); Kimberly Willier (director); Sacha Martens (secretary); Meghan Payne (executive director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Lesser Slave Watershed Council’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 826078966RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.