Muskrat Watershed Council
Charitable organization · Cobden, Ontario · BN 836166389RR0001 · Environment · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($27,573) as filed with the CRA.
Muskrat Watershed Council is a charitable organization based in Cobden, Ontario, classified by the CRA under environment. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $69K in revenue and $28K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 12% from government, 69% from other charities. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $255.
Compared with 211 environmental charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 86% of peers. None of its ten highest-paid positions cleared $40,000. The charity reported 2 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $32K in 2020 to $69K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
The Muskrat Watershed Council is a volunteer community-based not-for-profit organization whose main goal is to improve water quality for our local communities by using scientific and local-based knowledge. We seek to engage and empower people and communities in identifying and reducing nutrient loading from all sources within the Muskrat Watershed. Together they strive to: - Find solutions to improve water quality - Educate the public on the importance our of water quality - protect the watershed -Seek or raise funding from any resources available to put towards implementing projects …
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $69K | $28K | $27K | — | $100 | $63K |
| 2023 | $5,289 | $17K | $13K | — | $0 | — |
| 2022 | $39K | $1,712 | $42K | — | — | $46K |
| 2021 | $14K | $14K | $11K | — | — | $34K |
| 2020 | $32K | $31K | $28K | — | — | $33K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $255 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $1–39,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions2
- Total compensation, all staff$11K
Schedule 3 of its 2020 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Karen Coulas (chair); Rene Coulas (chair); Barbara Green (secretary); Debbie Macdonald (treasurer); David Thomassin (science); Andy Laird; Jeff Reeves.
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Muskrat Watershed Council’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 836166389RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.