Community Forests International
Publicly funded institution · Sackville, New Brunswick · BN 841459423RR0001 · Environment · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-10-31. Split of total expenditures ($6,710,212) as filed with the CRA.
Community Forests International is a charitable organization based in Sackville, New Brunswick, 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 October 31, 2024, it reported $8.6M in revenue and $6.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 53% from government, 8% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 14 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $415K.
Compared with 28 environmental institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 74% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 100% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (10 positions in that band). The charity reported 15 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $703K in 2020 to $8.6M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
Community tree planting in canada. Environmental workshops promoting sustainable living through education. Tree planting in tanzania: send funds to agent organization community forests pemba to support community tree planting. Land conservation.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $8.6M | $6.7M | $6.5M | $2,824 | — | $8.5M |
| 2023 | $2.3M | $1.5M | $1.3M | $3,582 | — | $4.7M |
| 2022 | $1.8M | $1.2M | $661K | — | — | $2.7M |
| 2021 | $1.1M | $763K | $544K | — | — | $1.4M |
| 2020 | $703K | $534K | $418K | — | — | $1.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $415K from 14 charities:
- The George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation$113K
- The J W McConnell Family Foundation$107K
- Fondation Écho /echo Foundation$100K
- RBC Foundation$30K
- The Chawkers foundation$20K
- The Nature Conservancy of Canada$18K
- Canadahelps Canadon$13K
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$6,162
- The Peterborough K. M. Hunter Charitable Foundation$5,000
- Nature Canada / Canada Nature$1,597
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$861
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$211
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$145
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$35
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,99910 positions
- $1–39,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions15
- Total compensation, all staff$955K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jeff Schnurr (chair of the board); Melissa Labrador (board member); Vinod Parmeshwar (board member); James Lane (board member); Niamh Leonard (board member); Shyla O'Donnell (board member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Community Forests International’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 841459423RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.