Canadian Organic Growers Inc.
Charitable organization · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 130140494RR0001 · Public Amenities · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,562,683) as filed with the CRA.
Canadian Organic Growers Inc. is a charitable organization based in Ottawa, Ontario, classified by the CRA under public amenities. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.6M in revenue and $1.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 77% from donations, 20% from government. In 2024, 12 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $370K.
Compared with 414 public-amenity charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 24% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 12 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $888K in 2020 to $1.6M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
Canadian organic growers ( cog) is canada's national organix farmer and consumer association and is a registered educational charity. For 49 years cog has offered training and resources to raise awareness about organics and has assisted farmers and gardners in adopting sustainable and commercially viable regenerative organix production methods. Cog connects communities across canada to build a food system guided by organic principles of health sustainability and fairness is engaged in educational programming research policy work and sector development at the local regional and national…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.6M | $1.6M | $1M | $107K | — | $584K |
| 2023 | $1.2M | $1.2M | $1.1M | $44K | — | $612K |
| 2022 | $1.1M | $1.1M | $961K | $94K | — | $577K |
| 2021 | $1.3M | $1.2M | $1.2M | $104K | — | $546K |
| 2020 | $888K | $703K | — | $28K | — | $405K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $370K from 12 charities:
- The Brian and Joannah Lawson Family Foundation$200K
- Fondation Écho /echo Foundation$50K
- Endswell 2021 Foundation$47K
- The Calgary Foundation$35K
- The Stuchberry Foundation$21K
- Canadahelps Canadon$6,631
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$6,162
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$1,225
- The Bradstreet Family Foundation$1,000
- Canada Gives$700
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$532
- Ottawa Horticultural Society$300
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9998 positions
- Permanent full-time positions12
- Total compensation, all staff$769K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Janine Gibson (secretary); Maryruth Thiong's (director); Same Appleby (director); Gillian Files (past president); Iris Vaisman (director); Allison Squires (president); Vijay Bhosekar (director); Corine Singfield (director); Stephanie Kohls (director); Madelaine Clerk (treasurer); Andrea Barnett (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Canadian Organic Growers Inc.’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 130140494RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.