Mind Your Plastic
Publicly funded institution · Halifax, Nova Scotia · BN 740846894RR0001 · Teaching Institutions
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($561,489) as filed with the CRA.
Mind Your Plastic is a charitable organization based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, classified by the CRA under teaching institutions. It appears on the charity register the way hospitals, universities, and other publicly funded bodies do — to issue tax receipts — rather than as a donation-driven charity in the usual sense. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $348K in revenue and $561K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 19% from donations, 11% from other charities. In 2024, 15 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $166K.
Compared with 1,540 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 5% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 2 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $120K in 2020 to $348K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 2 names.
In its own words
Sponsor a km program education programs make canada clean again
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $348K | $561K | $177K | — | — | -$91K |
| 2023 | $183K | $270K | — | — | — | -$70K |
| 2022 | $206K | $301K | — | — | — | $18K |
| 2021 | $237K | $162K | — | — | — | $112K |
| 2020 | $120K | $129K | — | — | — | $32K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $166K from 15 charities:
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$103K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$12K
- The Peterborough K. M. Hunter Charitable Foundation$10K
- R. Howard Webster Foundation$10K
- The Derick Brenninkmeyer Charitable Foundation$10K
- Canadahelps Canadon$9,006
- The Calgary Foundation$5,612
- Mind on Development$2,000
- Mathisen Family Private Foundation$1,400
- The David H. Laidley Foundation/fondation David H. Laidley$1,000
- The John C. and Sally Horsfall Eaton Foundation$1,000
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$394
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$350
- CN Employees' and Pensioners' Community Fund$300
- United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes$100
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
- $1–39,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions2
- Total compensation, all staff$228K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Stephanie Bird (director treasurer); Shane Hedderson (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Mind Your Plastic’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 740846894RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.