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MUSKRAT WATERSHED COUNCIL

Charitable organizationEnvironment·44 MAIN STREET · P.O. BOX 317 · COBDEN, ON · K0J 1K0·BN 836166389RR0001·website ↗

Last reported: F2024 filing · period ending 2024-03-31

This filing's expense lines don't reconcile: program spending (line 5000) plus overhead (5010 + 5020) adds up to more than total spending (4950). Cents-to-cause and overhead can't both be right, and the filing doesn't say which — so this charity is left out of ranked search results for this filing year. We show both figures exactly as filed; read them together with this in mind, or check the public record ↗.

What it does — in its own words

Ongoing programs

The Muskrat Watershed Council is a volunteer community-based not-for-profit organization whose main goal is to improve water quality for our local communities by using scientific and local-based knowledge. We seek to engage and empower people and communities in identifying and reducing nutrient loading from all sources within the Muskrat Watershed. Together they strive to: - Find solutions to improve water quality - Educate the public on the importance our of water quality - protect the watershed -Seek or raise funding from any resources available to put towards implementing projects Show more

The Muskrat Watershed Council is a volunteer community-based not-for-profit organization whose main goal is to improve water quality for our local communities by using scientific and local-based knowledge. We seek to engage and empower people and communities in identifying and reducing nutrient loading from all sources within the Muskrat Watershed. Together they strive to: - Find solutions to improve water quality - Educate the public on the importance our of water quality - protect the watershed -Seek or raise funding from any resources available to put towards implementing projects to improve water quality within the Muskrat Watershed

New programs

SCOPE OF Great Lake Local Action Fund: This Project will help reduce erosion create new habitat and filter out sources of agricultural run-off in the Muskrat Watershed located in the St. Lawrence River Watershed over the long-term and also includes the following: • Naturalizing a minimum of three agricultural streambanks with native trees and shrubs. • Collaborating with a minimum of five farmers in the Muskrat Watershed to conduct in-situ soil sampling to provide data on the health of their soil and recommendations for responsible and sustainable soil management practices. • Installi Show more

SCOPE OF Great Lake Local Action Fund: This Project will help reduce erosion create new habitat and filter out sources of agricultural run-off in the Muskrat Watershed located in the St. Lawrence River Watershed over the long-term and also includes the following: • Naturalizing a minimum of three agricultural streambanks with native trees and shrubs. • Collaborating with a minimum of five farmers in the Muskrat Watershed to conduct in-situ soil sampling to provide data on the health of their soil and recommendations for responsible and sustainable soil management practices. • Installing cattle fencing and external watering source on a minimum of one farm property in the Muskrat Watershed. • Providing educational opportunities for Project participants and members of the community on topics relating to agricultural best management practices soil health and environmental stewardship.

Program descriptions from its F2024 T3010 filing, verbatim · self-reported · this is also the text our semantic search matches against. source ↗

Tier 1 — what we computed (open data)

From the charity's own F2024 T3010 filing. Self-reported; not independently verified. You can recompute every figure.

Cents to cause

T1 · computed (open data)

99¢

As filed: 99¢ of each dollar to programs — but this filing's expense lines don't reconcile (see note above).

Sector median: 89¢ across 55,155 computed charities.

T3010 line 5000 ÷ 4950 · Self-reported on the T3010; not independently verified. source ↗

Operating overhead

T1 · computed (open data)

71%

Management, administration, and fundraising as a share of total spending. We treat 5–35% as the typical range; we state the figure, you judge.

T3010 line (5010 + 5020) ÷ 4950 · Self-reported on the T3010; not independently verified. source ↗

Reserves

T1 · computed (open data)

Years current reserves could cover program spending.

Sector quartiles: 0.4 yr / 0.8 yr / 7.5 yr (p25 / median / p90).

T3010 line (4100 + 4140) ÷ 5000 · Self-reported on the T3010; not independently verified. source ↗

Total revenue

T1 · computed (open data)

$69K

Last-reported total revenue.

T3010 line 4700 · Self-reported on the T3010; not independently verified. source ↗

Donor-funded

T1 · computed (open data)

3%

Share of revenue from receipted donations.

T3010 line 4500 ÷ 4700 · Self-reported on the T3010; not independently verified. source ↗

Government-funded

T1 · computed (open data)

12%

Share of revenue from federal, provincial, and municipal sources.

T3010 line 4570 (or 4540+4550+4560) ÷ 4700 · Self-reported on the T3010; not independently verified. source ↗

Over the years

Every figure as filed at each fiscal period end, 20192024.

Period endRevenueCents to causeOverheadReserves
2019-03-31$14K
2020-03-31$32K88¢12%1.2 yr
2021-03-31$14K80¢15%
2022-03-31$39K2439¢139%
2023-03-31$5K74¢20%
2024-03-31$69K99¢71%
trend

From its T3010 filings (CRA annual releases) · self-reported, not audited by us · when a period is restated in a later release, the newest figures are shown · = cents-to-cause outside the valid 0–100% range (filing error; not used in rankings). source ↗

★ Tier 2 — Charity Intelligence (analyst-reviewed)

Not rated by Charity Intelligence. Their analysts cover 618 of Canada's 83,761 charities; absence of a rating says nothing about this charity. Our computed figures above stand on their own.

Board of directors

7 directors reported · 7 of 7at arm's length

  • Coulas, Karen RChairarm's length
  • Coulas, Rene RChairarm's length
  • Green, BarbaraSecretaryarm's length
  • Macdonald, DebbieTreasurerarm's length
  • Thomassin, DavidSciencearm's length
  • Laird, Andyarm's length
  • Reeves, Jeffarm's length

From its F2024T3010 filing (public CRA record), as filed. “Arm's length” means not related to other officials by family or business ties. source ↗

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