Oak Ridges Moraine Land Trust
Charitable organization · Schomberg, Ontario · BN 873208920RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($814,297) as filed with the CRA.
Oak Ridges Moraine Land Trust is a charitable organization based in Schomberg, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $925K in revenue and $814K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 38% from donations, 6% from government, 42% from other charities. In 2024, 15 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.2M.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 45% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 8 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $448K in 2020 to $925K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
The organization's activities include: a) the establishment maintenance and management of a system of nature reserves on and near the oak ridges moraine b) the identification protection conservation maintenance and restoration of the integrity of the natural environment and heritage sites on and near the oak ridges moraine including trails and physical features of scientific ecological hydrological historic architectural archaeological scenic and open space interest c) the research and education about the natural environment and heritage sites on and near the oak ridges moraine
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $925K | $814K | $688K | $89K | — | $43.7M |
| 2023 | $959K | $559K | $454K | $61K | — | $42.6M |
| 2022 | $579K | $614K | $547K | $41K | — | $40.5M |
| 2021 | $495K | $494K | $437K | $44K | — | $39.8M |
| 2020 | $448K | $453K | $362K | $71K | — | $38.7M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $1.2M from 15 charities:
- Ontario Land Trust Alliance Inc.$976K
- Fondation Écho /echo Foundation$100K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$59K
- Greenbelt Foundation$43K
- The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation$25K
- Fondation Écho /echo Foundation$15K
- Canadahelps Canadon$6,742
- Ontario Wildlife Foundation$5,000
- United Way of Greater Toronto$2,193
- Julia Coey Memorial Foundation$2,000
- Toronto Foundation$750
- Douglas and Margaret Derry Foundation$500
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$218
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$210
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$19
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- $1–39,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions8
- Total compensation, all staff$385K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Patricia Short-Galle (director); Isobel Ralston (director); Michael Charles (chair); Deborah Thompson (director); Boni Griffith (treasurer); Lynn Wizniak (director); Md Ashiquil Amin Khan (director); Emmanuel Ronchin (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Oak Ridges Moraine Land Trust’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 873208920RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.