Seeds of Diversity Canada
Charitable organization · Waterloo, Ontario · BN 896508157RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-07-31. Split of total expenditures ($292,118) as filed with the CRA.
Seeds of Diversity Canada is a charitable organization based in Waterloo, Ontario, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. In its fiscal year ending July 31, 2024, it reported $317K in revenue and $292K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 24% from donations, 20% from government, 48% from other charities. In 2024, 15 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $157K.
Compared with 730 community-service charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 57% of peers.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $161K in 2020 to $317K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
Educational programs for conservation of plant varieties and pollinators for food and agriculture. Seed conservation and production training for gardeners and farmers. Publication of newsletters and seed exchange lists for public education on conservation activities and skills. Creation and support of school gardens and associated education programs for food and seed education. Maintenance of public-access collection of Canadian heritage seeds. Online youth education on gardening and food skills pollinator conservation seed conservation and agriculture.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $317K | $292K | $256K | $14K | — | $227K |
| 2023 | $295K | $276K | $246K | $13K | $0 | $203K |
| 2022 | $291K | $263K | $227K | $14K | $0 | $184K |
| 2021 | $235K | $199K | $182K | $5,315 | $0 | $144K |
| 2020 | $161K | $155K | $134K | $4,881 | $0 | $113K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $157K from 15 charities:
- Weston Family Foundation$83K
- R. Howard Webster Foundation$15K
- The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation$15K
- Canadahelps Canadon$11K
- Gore Mutual Insurance Company Foundation$10K
- The Peterborough K. M. Hunter Charitable Foundation$10K
- TD Friends of the Environment Foundation$5,000
- Waterloo Rotary Club Charitable Foundation$3,000
- The Cairns Family Charitable Foundation$1,500
- Plant a Seed & See What Grows Foundation$1,000
- Canada Gives$1,000
- Waterloo Region Community Foundation$1,000
- The Georgina Foundation$500
- Community Foundation for Kingston & Area$500
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$108
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Permanent full-time positions0
- Total compensation, all staff$152K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Zoe Arnold (director); Kristine O'Brien (chair); Rebecca Ivanoff; Wendy Sauvé; Shelley Spruit; Faye Bontje; Katlynn Sverko (director); Pauline Ripat (director); Susan Ladner (director); Susan Carey (director); Kate Veinot (director); Pam McKinnon-Coco (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Seeds of Diversity Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 896508157RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.