Evergreen
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 131815763RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($27,253,820) as filed with the CRA.
Evergreen 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 $26M in revenue and $27.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 16% from government, 7% from other charities. In 2024, 39 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.6M.
Compared with 34 community-service charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 6% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 87% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $300,000–349,999 range. The charity reported 111 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 14 names.
In its own words
'Evergreen collaborates across sectors community leaders and placemakers to change how we build our cities through better public places. We work with communities to test ideas on the ground and create great public spaces for people and planet. Evergreen has helped to transform over 6 000 school grounds into natural learning grounds engage over 170 000 residents on city building issues affecting their communities and created collaborative strategies that advance how we plan and build more sustainable cities. At Evergreen Brick Works Evergreen showcases the way great public space positively i…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $26M | $27.3M | $18.9M | $955K | $0 | $648K |
| 2023 | $24.3M | $24.9M | $16.6M | $828K | $10K | $1.9M |
| 2022 | $25.2M | $24.6M | $16.4M | $840K | $20K | $2.6M |
| 2021 | $19.6M | $18.2M | $10.2M | $887K | $42K | $2M |
| 2020 | $17.7M | $17.3M | $9.7M | $973K | $63K | $599K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $1.6M from 39 charities:
- Suncor Energy Foundation/fondation Suncor Energie$300K
- Lynwood Family Foundation$125K
- RBC Foundation$113K
- The Michael Young Family Foundation$100K
- Chisholm Thomson Family Foundation$100K
- The George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation$85K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$78K
- Toronto Foundation$72K
- Weston Family Foundation$70K
- SGNC Foundation$60K
- Hamilton Community Foundation$55K
- R. Howard Webster Foundation$53K
- Arrell Family Foundation$50K
- Definity Insurance Foundation$50K
- The Joan and Clifford Hatch Foundation$45K
- Burgundy Legacy Foundation$38K
- The Langar Foundation$30K
- Balsam Foundation$25K
- The Jarislowsky Foundation/la Fondation Jarislowsky$25K
- Gordon & Ruth Gooder Charitable Foundation$20K
- The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation$20K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$11K
- Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto$10K
- The Peterborough K. M. Hunter Charitable Foundation$10K
- T.R. Meighen Family Foundation/Fondation de la Famille T.R. Meighen$10K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $300,000–349,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9992 positions
- $120,000–159,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions111
- Total compensation, all staff$10.6M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Andy Chisholm (chair); Carole-Ann Hamilton (director); Tom Milroy (director); Andrea DelZotto (vice chair); Hibaq Gelle (director); Tracey Sobers (secretary); Upton Jeans (treasurer); Steve Mennill (director); Akif Unal (director); Robert Lawrie (director); Cindy Bush (director); Chris Crowell (director); Brent McCurdy (director); Lindsay Walker (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Evergreen’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 131815763RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.