Creative and Natural Outdoor Experience Inc
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 889249488RR0001 · Public Amenities · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-10-31. Split of total expenditures ($399,171) as filed with the CRA.
Creative and Natural Outdoor Experience Inc is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under public amenities. In its fiscal year ending October 31, 2024, it reported $455K in revenue and $399K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 70% from donations, 24% from other charities. In 2024, 11 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $189K.
Compared with 1,296 public-amenity charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 41% of peers. The charity reported 3 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $205K in 2020 to $455K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
Project c.a.n.o.e uses the outdoors including wilderness canoeing to create a transformative environment in which youth develop life skills social competencies and resiliency thereby fostering their own personal success. The organization partners with youth by supporting them as they carry these skills and successes forward to manage the complex challenges of their lives.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $455K | $399K | $305K | $71K | — | $122K |
| 2023 | $360K | $361K | — | — | — | $66K |
| 2022 | $203K | $359K | $311K | $1,412 | — | $67K |
| 2021 | $456K | $318K | $269K | $1,627 | — | $223K |
| 2020 | $205K | $124K | $77K | $14K | — | $84K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $189K from 11 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$58K
- Canadahelps Canadon$58K
- The Alva Foundation$30K
- The Kiwanis Club of Toronto Foundation$10K
- The Charles H. Ivey Foundation$10K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$9,416
- The Toronto Star Children's Charities$7,290
- Ontario Credit Union Foundation$3,500
- Aqueduct Foundation$1,300
- Gandy Charitable Foundation$1,000
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$500
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Permanent full-time positions3
- Total compensation, all staff$269K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Andrew Macdonald (secretary and director); Landon Roedding (treasurer and director); Peter Szathmary (president & chair); Kate Barrett (director); Ren Wiebe (director); Shveta Kantekar (director); Kathy Ord (director); Trevor Gooden (director); Maysam Fadel (director); Segen Mehreteab (director); David Litwin (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Creative and Natural Outdoor Experience Inc’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 889249488RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.