Green Communities Canada
Charitable organization · Peterborough, Ontario · BN 815264890RR0001 · Support of Schools and Education
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,146,559) as filed with the CRA.
Green Communities Canada is a charitable organization based in Peterborough, Ontario, classified by the CRA under support of schools and education. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $3.2M in revenue and $3.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 20% from government, 64% from other charities. In 2024, 14 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.4M.
Compared with 632 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 11% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 22 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 30 qualified donees totalling $821K in 2024, the largest being $99K to Equiterre. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $56K in 2020 to $3.2M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Continuing in 2024 was living cities canada. The goal of this project is to improve and expand relationships between researchers municipalities and community organizations collaborating in the green infrastructure space across canada. The charity conducted activities in planning and education in active school travel. The deep energy retrofit program continued in 2024. The charity conducted activities to educate canadian homeowners towards the goal of net-zero emissions from residential homes. Funding for the charity continued to conduct research into accelerating the adoption of electric s…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.2M | $3.1M | $441K | — | $1.4M | $360K |
| 2023 | $2.6M | $3.1M | $1.1M | — | $1.2M | $340K |
| 2022 | $527K | $519K | — | — | — | $32K |
| 2021 | $269K | $265K | $254K | — | — | $24K |
| 2020 | $56K | $102K | $91K | — | — | $20K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $821K to 30 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Equiterre$99K
- Queen's University at Kingston$86K
- Peterborough Green-Up Association$56K
- London Environmental Institute$48K
- Atlantic Coastal Action Program (acap) Saint John Inc.$48K
- Université de Montréal$46K
- The University of British Columbia$46K
- Reep Green Solutions$40K
- Saskatchewan Environmental Society Inc.$38K
- New name: Petitcodiac Watershed Alliance (PWA) Inc. / Alliance du bassin versant Petticodiac (ABVP) Inc.$38K
- Green Action Centre Inc.$38K
- Toronto Metropolitan University$26K
- The Society for Children and Youth of BC$25K
- Toronto Green Community Inc.$23K
- Gorge Waterway Action Society$15K
- City of Richmond$15K
- The Pollution Probe Foundation$14K
- Ecology Action Centre$14K
- Toronto Botanical Garden$13K
- Board of Governors of the Catholic High Schools of the City of Hamilton$10K
- Town of Lincoln$10K
- Snuneymuxw First Nation$10K
- Rotary Club of Uxbridge Charitable Foundation$10K
- Hope Blooms Youth Social Entrepreneurial Ventures Inc.$10K
- Credit Valley Conservation Authority$10K
Received $1.4M from 14 charities:
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$348K
- The Peter Gilgan Foundation$287K
- RBC Foundation$225K
- The J W McConnell Family Foundation$170K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$160K
- Fondation Écho /echo Foundation$105K
- Balsam Foundation$50K
- The Trottier Family Foundation/la Fondation Familiale Trottier$50K
- Greenbelt Foundation$28K
- Makeway Charitable Society$21K
- Rosutec Charitable Foundation$2,000
- Canadahelps Canadon$1,605
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$308
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$1
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,99919 positions
- Permanent full-time positions22
- Total compensation, all staff$1.3M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Fiona McGuiness (director); Duke Trifunovic (treasurer); Shannon Costigan (director); Britt McKEE (chair); Caitlin Cassie (secretary); Lisa Kohler (director); Tom Du (director); Michael Jacobs; Teresa Lawson (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Green Communities Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 815264890RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.