Ontario Streams
Charitable organization · Aurora, Ontario · BN 896644374RR0001 · Environment
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($903,662) as filed with the CRA.
Ontario Streams is a charitable organization based in Aurora, Ontario, classified by the CRA under environment. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.1M in revenue and $904K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 6% from donations, 33% from government, 43% from other charities. In 2024, 11 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $252K.
Compared with 50 environmental charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 64% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 4 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $517K in 2020 to $1.1M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
To conserve and rehabilitate Ontario's rivers streams and wetland habitats through education and community action.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.1M | $904K | $800K | $2,206 | — | $567K |
| 2023 | $877K | $672K | $583K | $3,465 | — | $497K |
| 2022 | $654K | $666K | $624K | $2,569 | — | $292K |
| 2021 | $642K | $509K | $478K | $6,630 | $0 | $304K |
| 2020 | $517K | $383K | $334K | $5,363 | $0 | $172K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $252K from 11 charities:
- Fondation Écho /echo Foundation$75K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$39K
- Canadahelps Canadon$33K
- Canadahelps Canadon$33K
- Fondation Écho /echo Foundation$25K
- The McLean Foundation$15K
- The New Orchard Foundation$10K
- The KPMG Foundation/la Fondation KPMG$10K
- TD Friends of the Environment Foundation$8,000
- Birds Canada / Oiseaux Canada$4,000
- Canada Gives$1,000
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
- $1–39,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions4
- Total compensation, all staff$557K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Robert Giza (president); David Gambin (vice president); Grant Baverstock (treasurer); Eligio De Marco (director); Asif Pradhan (director); Michael F. Giza (director); Sally Innanen (secretary); Peter Davis (director); Ronald Gray (director); Assuntino (Tino) Romano (director); Heather Wilton (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Ontario Streams’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 896644374RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.