Environment Funders Canada
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 895098515RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($4,956,976) as filed with the CRA.
Environment Funders Canada is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $5M in revenue and $5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 64% from other charities. In 2024, 21 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $2.6M.
Compared with 299 community-service charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 89% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 5 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 21 qualified donees totalling $3.2M in 2024, the largest being $493K to Pembina Institute for Appropriate Development. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $2.4M in 2020 to $5M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 15 names.
In its own words
All of environment funders canada's programs are designed to expand the scope and effectiveness of grantmaking in support of the canadian environment and to support a vibrant network of philanthropic and other funders working individually and collectively to advance a healthy environment and sustainable future for canada. We help environmental funders to learn (through webinars research on topics related to environmental funding and dissemination of various environmentally-focused content) collaborate (through funder collaboratives funder interest groups and ad-hoc convenings around key …
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $5M | $5M | $1.6M | — | $3.2M | $609K |
| 2023 | $4.2M | $4.2M | — | — | $2.4M | $528K |
| 2022 | $4.3M | $4.1M | $1.6M | — | $2.4M | $486K |
| 2021 | $3.2M | $3M | $1.2M | — | $1.7M | $297K |
| 2020 | $2.4M | $2.4M | $993K | — | $1.3M | $164K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $3.2M to 21 qualified donees:
- Pembina Institute for Appropriate Development$493K
- Environmental Defence Canada$478K
- Oceans North Conservation Society$222K
- Kitasoo$188K
- Ecojustice Canada Society$176K
- CANADIAN PARKS AND WILDERNESS SOCIETY/La Société pour la nature et les parcs du Canada$155K
- Small Change Fund$150K
- East Coast Environmental Law Association (2007)$147K
- Équiterre$144K
- Qalipu Mi'Kmaq First Nation$138K
- Conservation Council of New Brunswick Inc.$129K
- The David Suzuki Foundation$126K
- Ecology Action Centre$125K
- Kwikwasut'inuxw Haxwa'mis$119K
- International Institute for Sustainable Development$114K
- Oceana Canada$112K
- Mowachaht/muchalaht$60K
- West Coast Environmental Law Research Foundation$45K
- Nuxalk Nation$39K
- First Nations Fisheries Charity Fund Society$30K
- Heiltsuk Tribal Council$18K
Received $2.6M from 21 charities:
- Fondation Écho /echo Foundation$1M
- The Trottier Family Foundation/la Fondation Familiale Trottier$595K
- The Lawson Foundation$200K
- North Family Foundation$160K
- Definity Insurance Foundation$150K
- The Sitka Foundation$110K
- The Consecon Foundation$80K
- Fondation Écho /echo Foundation$65K
- The Houssian Foundation$55K
- The Catherine Donnelly Foundation$50K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$25K
- Fondation Écho /echo Foundation$20K
- The McLean Foundation$20K
- The George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation$15K
- Toronto Foundation$13K
- Fondation Écho /echo Foundation$10K
- The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act$10K
- De Gaspe Beaubien Foundation la Fondation de Gaspe Beaubien$3,650
- The Schad Foundation$2,025
- The Chawkers foundation$685
- T.R. Meighen Family Foundation/Fondation de la Famille T.R. Meighen$675
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- $1–39,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions5
- Total compensation, all staff$408K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Liz Liske (director); Caroline North (director); Rod Ruff (director); Megan Tate (chair); Scott Lloy (treasurer); Phylicia Davis-Wesseling (director); Kristina Inrig (vice chair); Floriane Lemoine-Bothello (director); Elizabeth McCallion (director); Amy Buskirk (secretary); Aurore Fauret (director); Malcolm Shield (director); Luc Tittley (director); Laurel Atkinson (director); Namendra Anand (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Environment Funders Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 895098515RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.