Project Learning Tree Canada
Publicly funded institution · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 797462884RR0001 · Support of Schools and Education · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($4,579,276) as filed with the CRA.
Project Learning Tree Canada is a charitable organization based in Ottawa, Ontario, classified by the CRA under support of schools and education. 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 $4.6M in revenue and $4.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 7% from donations, 87% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $19.
Compared with 1,247 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 80% of peers.
Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $13M in 2021 to $4.6M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
Project learning tree canada is advancing environmental education forest literacy and career pathways using trees and forests as windows on the world. This is being achieved through the development and delivery of environmental education curriculum and activities for formal and nonformal educators and training that increases their confidence and ability to deliver plt canada education. To build confidence in bringing forests into the classroom plt canada is developing tools to increase forest literacy and the values and benefits of sustainably managed forests. In addition plt canada is deliv…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2021–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.6M | $4.6M | $4.4M | $35K | — | $0 |
| 2023 | $5.8M | $5.8M | $5.6M | $14K | — | $0 |
| 2022 | $14M | $14M | $13.7M | $21K | — | -$1 |
| 2021 | $13M | $13M | $12.7M | $28K | — | $0 |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $19 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Tovah Barocas (director); Jeff Bromley (director); Kevin Edgson (secretary-treasurer); Tracy Farrell (director); David Graham (director); Catherine Grenier (director); Lennard Joe (director); Michael Nadler (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Project Learning Tree Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 797462884RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.