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Registered charity

Forests Canada

CA-E-CHDS-EZSRActiveCanada (federal)3 independent sources
$12.1MRevenue reported
$1KPublic money on record
17On the board
17Organisations connected
3Independent publishers
83/100Evidence depth
October 24, 2026Latest source capture
On the record
Identifier
CA-E-CHDS-EZSR
Address
15 Maple Avenue, Unit 103, Barrie, ON, L4N 2N6
Earliest record
April 1, 2016
Also known as
Forests Canada / Forêts Canada · Forêts Canada
Identifiers held
Charity registration
898572862RR0001
Business number
898572862
Corporation number
16449018
Who controls this corporation. Federal corporations must file their Individuals with Significant Control with Corporations Canada. That register is not redistributed here — it can only be searched by corporation name or number, by design, so it cannot become a lookup by a person’s name. Search it directly for corporation number 16449018: Corporations Canada — federal corporation search.
Evidence depth
83/100
Deep record

This scores the depth of the public evidence assembled here. It does not score the organisation’s quality, reputation, solvency or risk. The formula is fixed and reproducible. See the formula.

Identityregistrations and identifiers
Operationsmunicipal licences
Filed figuresfinancials or workforce
Public moneycontracts or grants
Relationshipsfiled board or organisation links
Qualificationsstanding offers or supply arrangements
Public activitypermits and recorded work
Regulatorydecided findings
Dated historyevents with effective dates

Additional graph evidence outside the score: 17 organisation connections.

Public footprint · version 1

Where this organisation appears in public records

Eight independent dimensions describe the size and shape of the evidence. They are deliberately not added into one company score: a licence, a grant, a director filing and a court finding mean different things.

Footprint is not performance.

A larger bar means more public records of that kind. It does not mean better, worse, safer, larger, more profitable or more reputable.

Identityregistries, identifiers and corroboration
100
Operationslicences and operating places
0
Filed disclosurepublic financials and workforce
60
Public moneycontracts, grants and contribution records
22
Public activitypermits and recorded work
0
Relationshipsfiled board and identifier-linked organisations
76
Regulatorydecided public findings
0
Historydated span and recorded events
63

Each dimension uses fixed, logarithmic caps so one dataset with thousands of repeated rows cannot drown out every other fact. Read the formula and limits.

Registrations
RegistrarInstrumentNumberRegisteredStatus
Canada Revenue AgencyRegistered charity898572862RR0001—Registered
Corporations Canada (Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada)Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act16449018October 28, 2024Active
Board and officers on record (17)
NamePositionServing sinceStatus
William MartinDIRECTORFebruary 7, 2024current
Carol Walker-hartDIRECTORFebruary 7, 2024current
Kim RapagnaDIRECTORFebruary 7, 2024current
Dan MarinighDIRECTORFebruary 7, 2024current
David LoveDIRECTORApril 28, 2023current
Dirk BrinkmanDIRECTORApril 28, 2023current
Malcolm Cecil-cockwellPRESIDENTMarch 26, 2021current
Michael KlasnerTREASURERFebruary 9, 2018current
Christine LeducDIRECTORFebruary 9, 2018current
Bonny SkeneDIRECTOROctober 28, 2016current
Kim GavineDIRECTORApril 1, 2016current
Peter JohnsonDIRECTORApril 1, 2016current
Sydney OakesDIRECTORJanuary 28, 2021ended February 7, 2024
David SisamDIRECTORFebruary 8, 2019ended February 7, 2024
Riet VerheggenSECRETARYFebruary 9, 2018ended February 7, 2024
Robert HylandDIRECTORFebruary 9, 2018ended July 24, 2024
Gail BeggsDIRECTORApril 1, 2016ended February 7, 2024

Filed by the charity itself with the Canada Revenue Agency, under the Open Government Licence. This is the narrowest slate the source publishes — name, position, and tenure only; no address, phone, or email exists in the file to withhold. Why this is published and directors’ home addresses never are.

Organisations sharing a filed director name (17)

Every one of these rests on a single name in common, which is the weakest form this evidence takes — read them as leads, not findings.

OrganisationKindNames in common
Alberta Ballet Foundation
CA-E-5MFR-C9KJ
Registered charity1
Birds Canada
CA-E-PHKK-DTFM
Registered charity1
Brantford Scottish Rite Association Charitable Trust
CA-E-AB5T-ZE5W
Registered charity1
Cephas Christian Reformed Church Of Peterborough
CA-E-EK8C-0D1M
Registered charity1
Colborne Village United Church
CA-E-NXBN-NTW4
Registered charity1
Dryden Regional Health Services Foundation
CA-E-YX3N-9P56
Registered charity1
Fondation de la famille Zeller
CA-E-4DR9-7VH0
Registered charity1
Heart Beatz Child Youth And Family Centre
CA-E-X2B0-A6NX
Registered charity1
Loyalist Cultural Centre
CA-E-N164-0YCC
Registered charity1
Massie Community Centre INC.
CA-E-YBHV-3800
Registered charity1
Milton Bible Fellowship
CA-E-MHXT-SYJA
Registered charity1
Old Hay Bay United Church
CA-E-H74N-KZ58
Registered charity1
Parks And Recreation Proseeds Ontario
CA-E-EAX3-BRY3
Registered charity1
Revelstoke Heritage Railway Society
CA-E-V7ES-8B0T
Registered charity1
Saint Stephen's Anglican Church
CA-E-J7JR-DCD3
Registered charity1
Society For Autism Support And Services (calgary Region)
CA-E-DPZ7-YX7D
Registered charity1
Yellowstone To Yukon Conservation Initiative Foundation
CA-E-ZNVK-TDRA
Registered charity1
One name in common is a lead. Two is a link. These come from the director names each organisation filed with the Canada Revenue Agency, matched exactly as filed, and two people can share a name — across the whole corpus 95% of these rest on a single name, so a single match is genuinely weak evidence and is presented as such rather than dressed up. Two of the same names on the same pair of boards is a different matter: coincidence stops being a plausible explanation. A name appearing on more than eight boards is discarded outright as a probable collision.

The link is between organisations and carries only a count. Which people sit on which board stays on each organisation’s own page, exactly as the CRA published it, and there is deliberately no way here to search by a person or to list what one individual is involved in. Why that line is drawn there.
What it raised and spent — year ended September 30, 2024
Total revenue
$12,124,387
Total spending
$11,664,255
Total assets
$7,383,559
Total liabilities
$4,814,549
Receipted donations
$343,325
From other charities
$2,620,366
Charitable programs95.4% · $11.1M · line 5000
Management and administration3.1% · $364K · line 5010
Fundraising1.5% · $170K · line 5020
These are the charity’s own figures. They come from the T3010 return it filed with the Canada Revenue Agency, which is a statement the organisation makes about itself rather than an audit or an assessment of it. They are also a single year: a charity that received a capital gift, sold a building, or ran a campaign will look unlike itself.

A low share spent on programs is not by itself evidence of anything. Fundraising costs money, a year of building a reserve looks like underspending, and grant-making foundations pass money onward rather than running programs. The lines are shown as filed, with the CRA line numbers, so a reader can check them against the return.
Public money on record
Federal grants and contributions
$1,066

across 1 agreement, 2025–2025

Paying institutionAwardsValue
Canadian Heritage1$1,066
Value as published, not money paid. The federal contract value field includes the ceiling of standing offers and supply arrangements — purchasing capacity a department may never draw on. A large figure here can mean a large ceiling rather than a large payment.

Awards are attached to this record only where the evidence identifies exactly one organisation: a name and postal area that narrow to a single company, or a name unique across the whole national corpus. Proactive publication truncates the vendor postal code to three characters, so anything that could belong to more than one company is left unattached rather than guessed at. Totals are a floor in that direction. The full rules.
Timeline
  1. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$1,066
  2. Registered — Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act
Why this is one record

5 public datasets from 3 independent publishers describe this organisation. They were joined into one record because the evidence below agreed — never on a matching name alone.

  • Shares business number 898572862
    asserted by Canada Revenue Agency and Corporations Canada (Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada)

An automatic merge requires a shared business number, or a matching name AND address — never a name by itself. How resolution works.

Where this record comes from
DatasetLast capturedCadenceCoverage keptHealth
Registered charities — directors and officers (2024 returns)
Canada Revenue Agency · Open Government Licence – Canada
September 2, 2026P1Y1 captures · 0 comparisonscurrent
Registered charities — financial data (2024 returns)
Canada Revenue Agency · Open Government Licence – Canada
September 5, 2026P1Y1 captures · 0 comparisonscurrent
Registered charities — identification (2024 returns)
Canada Revenue Agency · Open Government Licence – Canada
September 8, 2026P1Y2 captures · 1 comparisonscurrent
Federal corporations — active not-for-profit, co-operative and boards of trade
Corporations Canada (Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada) · Open Government Licence – Canada
October 24, 2026P1D11 captures · 10 comparisonsdue
Proactive disclosure — federal grants and contributions
Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat · Open Government Licence – Canada
September 3, 2026P3M1 captures · 0 comparisonscurrent
Freshness is measured, not implied. “Last captured” is when this project last completed a read of the whole source dataset. “Coverage kept” is how many immutable captures and meaningful capture-to-capture comparisons are available. A missed day remains an explicit gap; a later snapshot cannot tell us what happened inside it. See every source.

This page is assembled from open data. It is not an official record, and the registrar is authoritative where the two disagree. How records are assembled.

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