ACER Association For Canadian Educational Resources
Publicly funded institution · Mississauga, Ontario · BN 890642515RR0001 · Environment · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($97,005) as filed with the CRA.
ACER Association For Canadian Educational Resources is a charitable organization based in Mississauga, Ontario, classified by the CRA under environment. It appears on the charity register the way hospitals, universities, and other publicly funded bodies do — to issue tax receipts — rather than as a donation-driven charity in the usual sense. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $91K in revenue and $97K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 10% from donations, 89% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $27K.
Compared with 28 environmental institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 50% of peers.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $40K in 2020 to $91K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
The association is a community organization whose current focus is ecological monitoring to track environmental change.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $91K | $97K | $85K | — | — | $54K |
| 2023 | $135K | $197K | $181K | — | — | $60K |
| 2022 | $309K | $242K | $230K | — | — | $122K |
| 2021 | $184K | $189K | $180K | — | — | $54K |
| 2020 | $40K | $58K | $33K | — | — | $62K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $27K from 2 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Total compensation, all staff$64K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Alice Casselman (founding president); Sonya Wieler (secretary); Ian Orchard (director); Mohammed Khan (director); Margaret Geare (director); Wendy Bodnoff (director); Keith Robson (acting chair); Linda Casselman (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from ACER Association For Canadian Educational Resources’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 890642515RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.