Mississippi Valley Field Naturalists
Charitable organization · Almonte, Ontario · BN 881736417RR0001 · Educational Organizations Not Elsewhere Categorized · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($20,908) as filed with the CRA.
Mississippi Valley Field Naturalists is a charitable organization based in Almonte, Ontario, classified by the CRA under educational organizations not elsewhere categorized. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $24K in revenue and $21K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 16% from donations. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $240.
Compared with 3,624 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 35% of peers.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $16K in 2020 to $24K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
1. Public meeting with nature lectures 2. Birding walks and bird counts 3. Public observation and learning sessions at the almonte lagoon 4. One day canoe/kayak observation outings and weekend canoe and hiking camps 5. Public trail maintenance work parties 6. Primary school environmental education: (financed butterfly gardens and provided monarch metamorphosis kits for local pulic schools 7. Young naturalist program for children 8-15 8. Habitat conservation (provided continuning advice for missisippi mills natural heritage system) 9. Nature bursary awards to local university students p…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $24K | $21K | $17K | — | — | $67K |
| 2023 | $29K | $23K | $16K | — | $4,000 | $62K |
| 2022 | $11K | $18K | $9,347 | — | $7,000 | $54K |
| 2021 | $13K | $10K | $7,165 | — | $100 | $54K |
| 2020 | $16K | $24K | $21K | — | $50 | $49K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $240 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Valerie Wilkinson (president); Paul Frigon (1st vice president); Brenda Boyd (past president); Sandra Duncan (secretary); Charles Bennett (director at large); John Blais (finance chair); Sylvia Miller (membership chair); Robert Smith (environment education chair); Louise Beckinsale (publicity chair).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Mississippi Valley Field Naturalists’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 881736417RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.