Ontario Farmland Trust
Charitable organization · Guelph, Ontario · BN 867334104RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($550,896) as filed with the CRA.
Ontario Farmland Trust is a charitable organization based in Guelph, Ontario, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $2.9M in revenue and $551K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 92% from donations. In 2024, 15 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $190K.
Compared with 299 community-service charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 46% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 94% of that peer group. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 5 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $578K in 2020 to $2.9M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 15 names.
In its own words
Education research and outreach that will further the preservation of agricultural lands. Investigation and pursuit of land securement projects and ongoing monitoring and management of securement projects.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.9M | $551K | $458K | $10K | — | $5.4M |
| 2023 | $394K | $371K | $278K | $14K | — | $4.2M |
| 2022 | $576K | $343K | $261K | $1,596 | — | $4.2M |
| 2021 | $1.8M | $340K | $225K | $566 | — | $3.9M |
| 2020 | $578K | $271K | $162K | $437 | — | $2.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $190K from 15 charities:
- Ontario Land Trust Alliance Inc.$49K
- Fondation Écho /echo Foundation$40K
- The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation$20K
- The Stuchberry Foundation$17K
- Greenbelt Foundation$15K
- R. Howard Webster Foundation$10K
- Hodgson Family Foundation$10K
- The McLean Foundation$10K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$6,111
- Uplands Charitable Foundation$5,000
- Canada Gives$5,000
- Canadahelps Canadon$3,065
- Christian Stewardship Services$150
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$50
- My Tribute Gift Foundation—
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
- $1–39,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions5
- Total compensation, all staff$321K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Mark Reusser (board); Margaret Walton (chair); Megan Mills (secretary); Peter Peeters (vice chair); Michael Douglas (board); Bethanee Jenzen (treasurer); Matthew Colley (board); Collette Aeschlimann (board); Sara Epp (board); Judy Coward (board); Krista Chapman (board); Melanie Williams (board); Marsha Paley (board); Kalinga Jagoda (board); Peter Ghattas (board).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Ontario Farmland Trust’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 867334104RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.