Mississippi Madawaska Land Trust
Charitable organization · Carleton Place, Ontario · BN 878591007RR0001 · Environment · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($327,480) as filed with the CRA.
Mississippi Madawaska Land Trust is a charitable organization based in Carleton Place, Ontario, classified by the CRA under environment. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $337K in revenue and $327K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 30% from donations, 15% from government, 42% from other charities. In 2024, 11 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $171K.
Compared with 145 environmental charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 66% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 2 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $72K in 2020 to $337K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
Acquisition and management of ecologically sensitive lands and conservations easements in the mississippi madawaska region of eastern ontario for the benefit of future generations
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $337K | $327K | $298K | $16K | — | $2.9M |
| 2023 | $294K | $281K | $258K | $8,103 | — | $2.9M |
| 2022 | $210K | $200K | $177K | — | — | $2M |
| 2021 | $828K | $200K | $187K | $2,751 | — | $2M |
| 2020 | $72K | $61K | $52K | — | — | $1.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $171K from 11 charities:
- Fondation Écho /echo Foundation$55K
- Ontario Land Trust Alliance Inc.$54K
- Canadahelps Canadon$25K
- Canadahelps Canadon$25K
- TD Friends of the Environment Foundation$6,000
- Makeway Foundation$2,676
- United Way of Greater Toronto$2,600
- Almonte Community CO-Ordinators$1,500
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$300
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$148
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$100
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions2
- Total compensation, all staff$134K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Stephen Kotze (president); Shelia Craig (vice president); Robert Stearns (secretary/treasurer); Stephen Blight (director); Jennifer Schnarr (director); Robert Rainer (director); Rachel Hodgson (director); Britta Runtz (director); Alexander Stone (director); Emily Giles (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Mississippi Madawaska Land Trust’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 878591007RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.