Pro Bono Canada
Public foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 841319635RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($339) as filed with the CRA.
Pro Bono Canada is a public foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations.
Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 3 qualified donees totalling $12K in 2023, the largest being $9,241 to Access Pro Bono Society of British Columbia. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
Pro bono canada promotes access to justice in canada by encouraging the provision of quality pro bono legal services to persons of limited means working cooperatively with canada's provincial pro bono organizations to increase sustain and replicate the services provied by this unique cluster of organizations increasing awareness on a national level of the need and value of pro bono activities receiving and maintaining funds and applying all or part of the principal and income to charitable organizations.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | — | $339 | — | — | — | $44K |
| 2023 | — | $13K | — | — | $12K | $44K |
| 2022 | $309 | $24K | — | — | $23K | $54K |
| 2021 | $1,278 | $4,298 | — | — | $4,298 | $22K |
| 2020 | $63K | $55K | — | — | $54K | $26K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2023
Granted $12K to 3 qualified donees:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Dennis O'Connor (chair); Marie Deschamps (director); Constance Hunt (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Pro Bono Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 841319635RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.