Generate Canada Inc.
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 890803497RR0001 · Environment · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($7,023,274) as filed with the CRA.
Generate Canada Inc. is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under environment. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $6.6M in revenue and $7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 23% from government, 25% from other charities. In 2024, 11 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $814K.
Compared with 50 environmental charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 30% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 34 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $187K in 2024, the largest being $187K to University of Ottawa. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $2.4M in 2020 to $6.6M in 2024.
In its own words
Generate Canada is a national charity that connects problem-solvers across sectors and value chains to generate solutions to the most complex challenges at the nexus of environment economy and society. The organization’s vision is a strong and inclusive economy that thrives within nature’s limits. To advance that vision the organization creates and operates Solution Spaces - multi-stakeholder initiatives that foster deep collaboration between diverse partners to innovate test and scale solutions to 'wicked' sustainability challenges. These Solutions Spaces include the Canada Plastics P…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $6.6M | $7M | $5.4M | $23K | $187K | -$756K |
| 2023 | $6.2M | $6.2M | $5.3M | $13K | $0 | $146K |
| 2022 | $4.2M | $4.1M | $3.6M | $938 | $88K | $101K |
| 2021 | $3.3M | $3.4M | $3.1M | $938 | — | $87K |
| 2020 | $2.4M | $2.3M | $2.1M | $1,291 | — | $243K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $187K to 1 qualified donee:
- University of Ottawa$187K
Received $814K from 11 charities:
- RBC Foundation$267K
- The Neptis Foundation$220K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$133K
- The George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation$100K
- The Neptis Foundation$70K
- Fondation Écho /echo Foundation$10K
- Canadahelps Canadon$8,206
- Salal Foundation$5,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$930
- Suncor Energy Foundation/fondation Suncor Energie$250
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$9
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9997 positions
- $120,000–159,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions34
- Total compensation, all staff$3.7M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Generate Canada Inc.’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 890803497RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.