Green Thumbs Growing Kids
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 806962353RR0001 · Environment · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($411,387) as filed with the CRA.
Green Thumbs Growing Kids is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under environment. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $419K in revenue and $411K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 63% from donations, 13% from government, 21% from other charities. In 2024, 10 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $178K.
Compared with 145 environmental charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 83% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 92% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 7 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $271K in 2020 to $419K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
The charity's mission is to teach urban children and their families to grow and appreciate fresh nutritious foods grown in an environmentally sustainable and socially just manner in hands-on programs.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $419K | $411K | $400K | $3,569 | — | $114K |
| 2023 | $339K | $333K | $323K | $3,003 | — | $106K |
| 2022 | $339K | $322K | $315K | $1,874 | — | $100K |
| 2021 | $301K | $288K | $284K | $88 | — | $83K |
| 2020 | $271K | $260K | $252K | $442 | — | $70K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $178K from 10 charities:
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$59K
- Fondation Écho /echo Foundation$25K
- Canadahelps Canadon$21K
- Canadahelps Canadon$21K
- The Peter Gilgan Foundation$15K
- Air Canada Foundation$15K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$10K
- S.M. Blair Family Foundation$6,000
- The Marjorie and Joseph Wright Memorial Foundation$6,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$295
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- $1–39,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions7
- Total compensation, all staff$341K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Tara Pearson (member); Megan McGinnis-Dunphy (secretary/vp); Charlene Lord (chair); Kayleigh Fisher (treasurer); Sailavasan Vettivelu (member); Taylor Millan (member); Karen Jull (member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Green Thumbs Growing Kids’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 806962353RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.