Ontario Land Trust Alliance Inc.
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 869437517RR0001 · Educational Organizations Not Elsewhere Categorized · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($9,031,332) as filed with the CRA.
Ontario Land Trust Alliance Inc. is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under educational organizations not elsewhere categorized. It appears on the charity register the way hospitals, universities, and other publicly funded bodies do — to issue tax receipts — rather than as a donation-driven charity in the usual sense. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $8.9M in revenue and $9M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 97% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 5 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $18K.
Compared with 1,247 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 89% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 11 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 25 qualified donees totalling $8.2M in 2024, the largest being $2M to Long Point Basin Land Trust. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $342K in 2020 to $8.9M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
To educate and increase the public's understanding of the preservation stewartship and rehabilitation of natural and cultural heritage areas in ontario by education activities. To conduct research regarding natural and cultrual heritage areas of ontario and lands protected by land trusts to disseminate the results to the public. To provide education communication and support services to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of member organizations that are registered charities as per subsection 149.1 of the income tax act.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $8.9M | $9M | $659K | — | $8.2M | $392K |
| 2023 | $6.6M | $6.5M | $671K | — | $5.8M | $458K |
| 2022 | $2M | $1.9M | $1.9M | — | — | $411K |
| 2021 | $1.5M | $1.5M | $1.4M | — | — | $344K |
| 2020 | $342K | $297K | $262K | — | — | $291K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $8.2M to 25 qualified donees:
- Long Point Basin Land Trust$2M
- Kawartha Land Trust$1.4M
- Oak Ridges Moraine Land Trust$976K
- Muskoka Conservancy$876K
- The Bruce Trail Conservancy$716K
- Escarpment Biosphere Conservancy Inc.$539K
- The Rideau Valley Conservation Foundation$343K
- The Couchiching Conservancy$329K
- The Georgian Bay Trust Foundation Inc$254K
- Thames Talbot Land Trust$203K
- Thousand Islands Watershed Land Trust$107K
- Thunder Bay Field Naturalists Club$85K
- Mississippi Madawaska Land Trust$54K
- Ontario Farmland Trust$49K
- Northumberland Land Trust$40K
- Rare Charitable Research Reserve$37K
- Central Algoma Land Trust$32K
- Magnetawan Watershed Land Trust$26K
- Ontario Nature Inc.$15K
- Rideau Waterway Land Trust$10K
- Alliance of Canadian Land Trusts/Alliance canadienne des organismes de conservation$10K
- Thickson's Woods Heritage Foundation$9,322
- Haliburton Highlands Land Trust$5,900
- Culturelink Settlement and Community Services$2,800
- Ausable Bayfield Conservation Foundation$1,000
Received $18K from 5 charities:
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
- $40,000–79,9999 positions
- Permanent full-time positions11
- Total compensation, all staff$646K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Ian Attridge (chair); Caroline Schultz (past chair); Beth Gilhespy (treasurer); Joyce Chau (director); Jenna Siu (director); Patricia Wilson (director); John Kintare (director); Darla Koscinski (vice chair); Terra Duchene (director); Katie Akey (director); Samantha Whiteye (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Ontario Land Trust Alliance Inc.’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 869437517RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.