Rescue Lake Simcoe Charitable Foundation
Charitable organization · Aurora, Ontario · BN 848804548RR0001 · Environment · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($138,054) as filed with the CRA.
Rescue Lake Simcoe Charitable Foundation is a charitable organization based in Aurora, Ontario, classified by the CRA under environment. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $143K in revenue and $138K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 23% from donations, 18% from government, 45% from other charities. In 2024, 9 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $37K.
Compared with 145 environmental charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 17% of peers.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $56K in 2020 to $143K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
(1) outreach & education re lake simcoe health; (2) advocate for upholding the lake simcoe protection plan; (3) participated in stop sprawl and protect the greenbelt campaigns; (4) supported the creation of the alliance for a liveable ontario york region; (5) continuing to expose problems with process and impacts of major highway in ls watershed; (6) helping to create a campaign to reduce road salt pollution; (7) fundraising and an expansion of our school aged kids education program - lake simcoe defenders.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $143K | $138K | $81K | $30K | — | $90K |
| 2023 | $117K | $95K | $53K | $24K | — | $85K |
| 2022 | $125K | $110K | $60K | $36K | — | $63K |
| 2021 | $80K | $68K | $52K | — | — | $48K |
| 2020 | $56K | $80K | $57K | — | — | $38K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $37K from 9 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Total compensation, all staff$5,329
Schedule 3 of its 2023 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Linda Wells (vice-president); Jennie Ucar (president); Susan Sheard (secretary); Mathew Lund (director); Gail Speirs White (director); Alessia Mole (director); Colin Brown (director); Michael Duffy (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Rescue Lake Simcoe Charitable Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 848804548RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.