Finance Engage Sustain / Financer Engager Soutenir
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 801430307RR0001 · Environment · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,990,166) as filed with the CRA.
Finance Engage Sustain / Financer Engager Soutenir is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under environment. In its fiscal year ending August 31, 2024, it reported $3.2M in revenue and $3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 19% from donations, 14% from government, 62% from other charities. In 2024, 20 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.6M.
Compared with 50 environmental charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 87% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 87% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 15 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $228K in 2020 to $3.2M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
We train young people in universities and high schools on the issues around climate change and the united nation's sustainable development goals as a basis for mobilizing them in their local comunities. The foundation provides financial technical educational and networking assistance and support for young leaders to mobilize around issues local to them related to environmental stewardship sustainable development and climate change
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.2M | $3M | $862K | $2,971 | $1.9M | $257K |
| 2023 | $1.7M | $1.7M | $1.6M | $2,629 | — | $55K |
| 2022 | $965K | $837K | $778K | $4,981 | — | $65K |
| 2021 | $550K | $654K | $614K | $3,496 | — | -$63K |
| 2020 | $228K | $338K | $280K | $6,153 | — | $41K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $1.6M from 20 charities:
- The Trottier Family Foundation/la Fondation Familiale Trottier$441K
- The J W McConnell Family Foundation$230K
- The Lawson Foundation$130K
- Vancity Community Foundation$115K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$97K
- Makeway Foundation$80K
- The McLean Foundation$75K
- The Catherine Donnelly Foundation$65K
- Definity Insurance Foundation$63K
- Definity Insurance Foundation$63K
- Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal$50K
- The Peter Gilgan Foundation$50K
- Chamandy Foundation$50K
- Fondation Écho /echo Foundation$35K
- Clean Economy Fund$25K
- TD Friends of the Environment Foundation$14K
- The Lawson Foundation$10K
- The Peter Kingma Family Foundation$6,000
- Nick & Lynn Ross Charitable Foundation$200
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$100
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
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9995 positions
- $1–39,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions15
- Total compensation, all staff$711K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Timothy Ross (director); Kathy Falconi (treasurer); Anthony Boright (director); Kyle Boutilier (director); Darren Chang; Sarah Hanson (director); Alison Holder (director); Cyrielle Noel (director); Michael Rodger (director); Tristan Suman (director); Austin Zackarko (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Finance Engage Sustain / Financer Engager Soutenir’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 801430307RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.