Watersheds Canada
Charitable organization · Perth, Ontario · BN 863555223RR0001 · Environment · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($919,507) as filed with the CRA.
Watersheds Canada is a charitable organization based in Perth, Ontario, classified by the CRA under environment. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $938K in revenue and $920K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 10% from donations, 30% from government, 57% from other charities. In 2024, 22 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $460K.
Compared with 145 environmental charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 58% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 12 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $607K in 2020 to $938K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
Staff and volunteers contribute ongoing delivery in the following areas: improving scientific knowledge by carrying out research in collaboration with researchers and other groups providing opportunities of on site placement for hands on experience in watersheds research linking the scientific community and the public to increase awareness of the health among of shorelines and their protection facilitates networking between and among lake/watershed groups to share information resources and and developing models for lake/watershed management plans and delivery of programs. Ongoing programs I…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $938K | $920K | $799K | $14K | — | $141K |
| 2023 | $867K | $872K | $768K | $7,105 | — | $122K |
| 2022 | $653K | $640K | $585K | $1,480 | — | $128K |
| 2021 | $607K | $584K | $544K | — | — | $115K |
| 2020 | $607K | $592K | — | — | — | $93K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $460K from 22 charities:
- RBC Foundation$125K
- Five B Family Foundation$80K
- TD Friends of the Environment Foundation$50K
- Canadian Wildlife Federation$40K
- Canadahelps Canadon$30K
- Canadahelps Canadon$30K
- Inrig Family Foundation$25K
- The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation$25K
- Honda Canada Foundation$10K
- Hodgson Family Foundation$10K
- The Perth and District Community Foundation$6,800
- The Peterborough K. M. Hunter Charitable Foundation$5,000
- S.M. Blair Family Foundation$5,000
- Ontario Wildlife Foundation$5,000
- J.P. Bickell Foundation$4,700
- J.P. Bickell Foundation$4,700
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$2,500
- Mind on Development$1,000
- BenefAction Foundation$500
- ATCO Electric Epic$200
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$156
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$150
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
- $40,000–79,9996 positions
- $1–39,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions12
- Total compensation, all staff$601K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Mary Ellen Stoll (chair.exec comm/officer); Brett Painter (treasurer/exec comm/officer); Tom Whillans (board member/exec comm); Bridget Andrews (board member); Mike Thomas (board member); Lauren Lawson (board member); Robert Pye (executive director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Watersheds Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 863555223RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.