Registered charity
Grand River Conservation Authority
Legal name on the register: GRAND RIVER CONSERVATION AUTHORITY
CA-E-SPDY-JJSSCurrentCanada (federal)2 independent sources
$41.8MRevenue reported
$3.5MPublic money on record
29On the board
32Organisations connected
2Independent publishers
70/100Evidence depth
September 8, 2026Latest source capture
On the record
- Identifier
- CA-E-SPDY-JJSS
- Address
- PO BOX 729 STN GALT, CAMBRIDGE, ON, N1R 5W6
- Earliest record
- January 16, 2004
- Also known as
- Conestogo Lake Conservation Area
Identifiers held
- Charity registration
- 107447435RR0001
- Business number
- 000155204
- Business number
- 107447435
Evidence depth
70/100
Layered recordThis 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: 32 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
60
Operationslicences and operating places
0
Filed disclosurepublic financials and workforce
60
Public moneycontracts, grants and contribution records
75
Public activitypermits and recorded work
0
Relationshipsfiled board and identifier-linked organisations
86
Regulatorydecided public findings
0
Historydated span and recorded events
83
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
| Registrar | Instrument | Number | Registered | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canada Revenue Agency | Registered charity | 107447435RR0001 | — | Registered |
Board and officers on record (29)
| Name | Position | Serving since | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Matt Rodrigues | Director | April 23, 2025 | current |
| Lisa Hern | Director | December 13, 2022 | current |
| Rob Shirton | Director | December 12, 2022 | current |
| Shawn Watters | Vice Chair | December 12, 2022 | current |
| Alex Wilson | Director | December 7, 2022 | current |
| Ken Yee Chew | Director | December 6, 2022 | current |
| Christine Billings | Director | December 6, 2022 | current |
| Doug Craig | Director | November 23, 2022 | current |
| Pam Wolf | Director | November 23, 2022 | current |
| Mike Devine | Director | November 23, 2022 | current |
| Gordon Graevette | Director | November 23, 2022 | current |
| Colleen James | Director | November 23, 2022 | current |
| Sandy Shantz | Director | November 23, 2022 | current |
| Gino Caputo | Director | November 22, 2022 | current |
| David Miller | Director | November 22, 2022 | current |
| Jerry Smith | Director | January 11, 2021 | current |
| Kevin Davis | Director | November 19, 2019 | current |
| Samantha Lawson | CAO | July 15, 2019 | current |
| John Challinor II | Chair | March 27, 2019 | current |
| James Erb | Director | December 5, 2018 | current |
| Daniel Lawrence | Director | December 1, 2018 | current |
| Karen Armstrong | Secretary Treasurer | January 1, 2018 | current |
| Susan Foxton | Director | December 12, 2014 | current |
| Guy Gardhouse | Director | December 12, 2014 | current |
| Chris White | Director | December 12, 2014 | current |
| Bruce Banbury | Director | December 1, 2010 | current |
| Brian Coleman | Director | January 16, 2004 | current |
| Natasha Salonen | Director | November 23, 2022 | ended April 23, 2025 |
| Kari Williams | Director | November 23, 2022 | ended April 25, 2025 |
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 (32)
1 of them shares more than one name, which is a much stronger link than the rest. Those are listed first.
| Organisation | Kind | Names in common |
|---|---|---|
| Waterloo Regional Heritage Foundation CA-E-A94J-GP8E | Registered charity | 2 |
| Board of Health for the Grand Erie Health Unit CA-E-ZQKF-PEMZ | Registered charity | 1 |
| Bow Island Golden Age Club CA-E-KJED-H6A7 | Registered charity | 1 |
| Brant Waterways Foundation CA-E-9TVR-6HE1 | Registered charity | 1 |
| Brantford Public Library CA-E-VF65-PH08 | Registered charity | 1 |
| Calgary Firefighters Toy Association CA-E-Q6NK-PXED | Registered charity | 1 |
| Campbell River Beacon Club CA-E-GVRZ-6KS7 | Registered charity | 1 |
| Christ Church CA-E-427F-4T4F | Registered charity | 1 |
| Engineers Without Borders (Canada) Organisation CA-E-BJG0-QJ7N | Registered charity | 1 |
| Fairhaven Foundation CA-E-ZFFN-E4AH | Registered charity | 1 |
| Friends Of The Marble River CA-E-SRCF-88RE | Registered charity | 1 |
| Grace New Covenant Pentecostal Church CA-E-R7TD-W66P | Registered charity | 1 |
| Grand River Conservation Foundation CA-E-S36M-ZNXX | Registered charity | 1 |
| Kingdom Community International CA-E-GXVP-GCSQ | Registered charity | 1 |
| Neighbour To Neighbour Centre (hamilton) CA-E-KFCH-HVF2 | Registered charity | 1 |
| Neilson Park Creative Centre CA-E-7JNF-SR0A | Registered charity | 1 |
| Ontario Holstein Dairy Youth Trust Fund CA-E-SCK6-FQ2P | Registered charity | 1 |
| Pastew Place Detox Centre CA-E-ZSVF-1WSJ | Registered charity | 1 |
| Radio Carleton INC. CA-E-VEK5-D618 | Registered charity | 1 |
| Selkirk And Interlake Mental Health Support Centre INC. CA-E-6C7V-5GZW | Registered charity | 1 |
| Spruce Lodge Home For The Aged CA-E-GRGX-62NR | Registered charity | 1 |
| St Pauls United Church CA-E-4TAY-0X7M | Registered charity | 1 |
| St. Jacobs Mennonite Church CA-E-C5BH-778A | Registered charity | 1 |
| Tali's Fund CA-E-3PA5-N4GS | Registered charity | 1 |
| The Daysland & District Agricultural Society CA-E-M4V2-NY61 | Registered charity | 1 |
Showing the 25 strongest of 32.
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.
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 December 31, 2024
- Total revenue
- $41,795,604
- Total spending
- $34,197,093
- Total assets
- $164,415,969
- Total liabilities
- $11,904,870
- From other charities
- $1,568,931
Charitable programs39.5% · $13.5M · line 5000
Management and administration15.6% · $5.3M · line 5010
Not broken down in the return45.0% · $15.4M
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.
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 contracts
$74,327
across 4 awards, 2009–2026
| Paying institution | Awards | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Environment and Climate Change Canada | 3 | $56,600 |
| Health Canada | 1 | $17,727 |
Federal grants and contributions
$3,393,853
across 22 agreements, 2009–2025
| Paying institution | Awards | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada | 7 | $1,613,000 |
| Environment and Climate Change Canada | 12 | $1,369,692 |
| Fisheries and Oceans Canada | 2 | $406,161 |
| Parks Canada | 1 | $5,000 |
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.
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.
What it does
- Industry code
- 232990 · 810000 · 813310North American Industry Classification System
Trade and licence class are the publisher’s own words, kept as written rather than mapped onto a vocabulary of this site’s invention — a Calgary “RESTAURANT” and a Montréal “Restaurant service rapide” describe the same thing and are not the same string, and pretending otherwise would put words in a city’s mouth. The industry code is the exception: NAICS is a standard shared across Canada, the United States and Mexico, so it means the same thing wherever it appears. Only some publishers assign one.
Timeline
- Federal contract — Health Canada$17,727
- Federal grant — Fisheries and Oceans Canada$192,390
- Federal grant — Environment and Climate Change Canada$493,000
- Federal grant — Parks Canada$5,000
- Federal grant — Fisheries and Oceans Canada$213,771
- Federal grant — Environment and Climate Change Canada$138,562
- Federal grant — Environment and Climate Change Canada$70,000
- Federal grant — Environment and Climate Change Canada$189,685
- Federal grant — Environment and Climate Change Canada$40,000
- Federal contract — Environment and Climate Change Canada$22,600
- Federal grant — Environment and Climate Change Canada$30,000
- Federal grant — Environment and Climate Change Canada$123,520
- Federal grant — Environment and Climate Change Canada$40,000
- Federal grant — Environment and Climate Change Canada$45,000
- Federal grant — Environment and Climate Change Canada$42,225
- Federal grant — Environment and Climate Change Canada$131,000
- Federal grant — Environment and Climate Change Canada$26,700
- Federal contract — Environment and Climate Change Canada$11,000
- Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$99,000
- Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$231,000
- Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$755,000
- Federal contract — Environment and Climate Change Canada$23,000
- Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$99,000
- Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$231,000
Where this record comes from
| Dataset | Last captured | Cadence | Coverage kept | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Registered charities — directors and officers (2024 returns) Canada Revenue Agency · Open Government Licence – Canada | September 2, 2026 | P1Y | 1 captures · 0 comparisons | current |
| Registered charities — financial data (2024 returns) Canada Revenue Agency · Open Government Licence – Canada | September 5, 2026 | P1Y | 1 captures · 0 comparisons | current |
| Registered charities — identification (2024 returns) Canada Revenue Agency · Open Government Licence – Canada | September 8, 2026 | P1Y | 2 captures · 1 comparisons | current |
| Proactive publication — federal contracts over $10,000 Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat · Open Government Licence – Canada | September 1, 2026 | P3M | 1 captures · 0 comparisons | current |
| Proactive disclosure — federal grants and contributions Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat · Open Government Licence – Canada | September 3, 2026 | P3M | 1 captures · 0 comparisons | current |
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.
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