The ClearWater Futures Foundation
Charitable organization · Willow Beach, Ontario · BN 842146284RR0001 · Educational Organizations Not Elsewhere Categorized
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($4,286,520) as filed with the CRA.
The ClearWater Futures Foundation is a charitable organization based in Willow Beach, Ontario, classified by the CRA under educational organizations not elsewhere categorized. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $4.3M in revenue and $4.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 60% from donations, 17% from government, 11% from other charities. In 2024, 15 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $2.9M.
Compared with 632 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 14% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 85% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 11 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
Owc's purpose is to bring leadership to experiential learning for young people from the wonder years to young adults about the environment with water as a central theme -- through active learning programs connecting land and water demonstrating the value of water-wise regenerative farming and adding value to their communities. In support of its purpose owc is transforming a historic farm on lake simcoe into clearwater farm a place where young people are connecting with nature and learning how to cultivate a more sustainable future using science technology and the arts. In keeping up w…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.3M | $4.3M | $2.6M | $69K | — | $11.2M |
| 2023 | $7.8M | $4.7M | $3.4M | $90K | — | $11.1M |
| 2022 | $5.9M | $2.1M | $848K | $65K | — | $8M |
| 2021 | $2.4M | $2.2M | $1.5M | $161K | — | $4.2M |
| 2020 | $3.4M | $2.2M | $1.6M | $89K | — | $4M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $2.9M from 15 charities:
- Temerty Foundation$2.2M
- The Slaight Family Foundation$250K
- The Jarislowsky Foundation/la Fondation Jarislowsky$183K
- United Way of Greater Toronto$91K
- The Dalglish Family Foundation$54K
- La Fondation Emmanuelle Gattuso$25K
- RBC Foundation$25K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$22K
- United Way of Greater Toronto$20K
- Toronto Foundation$5,425
- Vamvakas Family Foundation$5,000
- Aqueduct Foundation$4,000
- Uplands Charitable Foundation$1,000
- Canadahelps Canadon$970
- The Canavan Family Foundation—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9998 positions
- Permanent full-time positions11
- Total compensation, all staff$496K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Annabel (carol) Slaight (chair); Tracy Smith (vice chair); Jain Surbhi (director); Gloria Epstein (director); Lynn Haight (director); Damien Chen (director); Lisa Lyons Johnston (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The ClearWater Futures Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 842146284RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.