Thousand Islands Watershed Land Trust
Charitable organization · Athens, Ontario · BN 824410526RR0001 · Environment · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($420,140) as filed with the CRA.
Thousand Islands Watershed Land Trust is a charitable organization based in Athens, Ontario, classified by the CRA under environment. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $921K in revenue and $420K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 23% from donations, 23% from government, 15% from other charities. In 2024, 12 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $450K.
Compared with 145 environmental charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 34% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 84% of that peer group. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 2 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $281K in 2020 to $921K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
The thousand islands watershed land trust provides advice education and services to landowners in the thousand islands watershed area on how to preserve and protect their land assists landowners in the preservation of their lands by negotiation and managing easements on chosen lands and acquires land through purchase or donation that it then manages and monitors for the benefit of the present and future generations.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $921K | $420K | $311K | $10K | — | $5M |
| 2023 | $534K | $270K | $198K | $9,933 | — | $4.5M |
| 2022 | $805K | $184K | $150K | $0 | $0 | $4.3M |
| 2021 | $670K | $182K | $148K | — | — | $3.2M |
| 2020 | $281K | $169K | $149K | — | — | $2.7M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $450K from 12 charities:
- The Schad Foundation$180K
- Ontario Land Trust Alliance Inc.$107K
- Fondation Écho /echo Foundation$100K
- Weston Family Foundation$50K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$4,250
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$3,000
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$2,500
- Canadahelps Canadon$1,789
- CN Employees' and Pensioners' Community Fund$500
- First Presbyterian Church$400
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$350
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$243
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions2
- Total compensation, all staff$186K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Don Ross (president); Marlene Ross (director); John Ambrose (director); Dave Warner (director); Vicki Leakey (treasurer); Dave Paul (vice president); Robert Burtch (secretary); Charles Systsma (director); Mike Cartan (director); Anne Henderson (director); John Earle (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Thousand Islands Watershed Land Trust’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 824410526RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.