SeedChange / Sème l'avenir
Charitable organization · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 119276129RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-04-30. Split of total expenditures ($7,371,184) as filed with the CRA.
SeedChange / Sème l'avenir is a charitable organization based in Ottawa, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending April 30, 2024, it reported $7.8M in revenue and $7.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 6% from donations, 45% from government, 41% from other charities. In 2024, 47 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.9M.
Compared with 1,125 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 34% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 88% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 30 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
Seedchange is a leading international development organization that promotes family farms strong rural communities and healthy ecosystems around the world. With engaged canadians and partners in africa asia and latin america we help communities thrive. We support programs training and policies that strenghten biodiversity food sovereignty and the rights of those at the heart of resilient food systems: women indigenous peoples and small-scale farmers. Seedchange has decades of experience in implementing multi-sectoral multi-country long-term development program overseas and education w…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $7.8M | $7.4M | $6M | $384K | — | $18K |
| 2023 | $7.6M | $8.2M | $6.4M | $573K | — | -$369K |
| 2022 | $6.7M | $6.8M | $5.6M | $500K | — | $179K |
| 2021 | $5.6M | $5.6M | $4.6M | $158K | — | $248K |
| 2020 | $5.6M | $5.6M | $4.8M | $174K | — | $246K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $1.9M from 47 charities:
- SeedChange Foundation$940K
- RBC Foundation$150K
- Weston Family Foundation$150K
- Carthy Foundation$103K
- The Peter Gilgan Foundation$100K
- The Jarislowsky Foundation/la Fondation Jarislowsky$100K
- The Jarislowsky Foundation/la Fondation Jarislowsky$70K
- Canadahelps Canadon$38K
- Canadahelps Canadon$38K
- The Calgary Foundation$28K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$26K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$26K
- Chisholm Thomson Family Foundation$25K
- The Victoria Foundation$23K
- R. Howard Webster Foundation$15K
- R&M Lang Foundation$7,500
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$6,162
- Makeway Foundation$5,000
- Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph in Canada$5,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$4,888
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$3,500
- Toronto Foundation$3,174
- Abundance Canada$3,000
- Vancouver Foundation$2,000
- Link Charity Canada Inc$1,500
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,99918 positions
- $40,000–79,99911 positions
- Permanent full-time positions30
- Total compensation, all staff$3.2M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Nicole McDonald (chair); Karim Salabi (vice-chair); Bernard Ndour (treasurer); Ericka Moerkerken (secretary); Alejandro Argumedo (director); Kim Delaney (director); Boaventura Eugenio Monjane (directro); Costanza Monterrubio Solis (director); Emma Kirke (director); Chloé Fauchon (director); Jessica Food (interim executive director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from SeedChange / Sème l'avenir’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119276129RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.