ST Lawrence River Institute of Environmental Sciences/l'institut des Sciences Environmentales du Fleuve Saint-Laurent
Publicly funded institution · Cornwall, Ontario · BN 138852363RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,509,723) as filed with the CRA.
ST Lawrence River Institute of Environmental Sciences/l'institut des Sciences Environmentales du Fleuve Saint-Laurent is a charitable organization based in Cornwall, Ontario, 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 $3.3M in revenue and $2.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 28% from donations, 31% from government, 14% from other charities. In 2024, 16 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $621K.
Compared with 1,247 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 45% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 84% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (6 positions in that band). The charity reported 29 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.5M in 2020 to $3.3M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 15 names.
In its own words
The st.lawrence river institute of environmental sciences is a research centre located in cornwall ontario canada. Its mandate is research education and community action relating to large river systems with a focus on the st.lawrence river ecosystems. It is a centre of discovery dedicated to issues such as water quality water chemistry freshwater toxicology biodiversity and food web biodynamics with a focus on the great lakes / st.lawrence river ecosystem. The river institute's concept of education includes extending opportunities for involvement in scientific research to all students f…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.3M | $2.5M | $2.2M | $17K | — | $2M |
| 2023 | $2.4M | $2.4M | $2.1M | $86K | — | $1.2M |
| 2022 | $2M | $2.1M | $1.8M | $79K | — | $1.3M |
| 2021 | $1.9M | $1.9M | $1.7M | $42K | — | $1.3M |
| 2020 | $1.5M | $1.5M | $1.3M | $36K | — | $1.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $621K from 16 charities:
- Five B Family Foundation$250K
- RBC Foundation$125K
- Liber Ero Foundation$105K
- Canadahelps Canadon$23K
- Canadahelps Canadon$23K
- Kenneth M. Molson Foundation$20K
- TELUS Friendly Future Foundation$19K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$18K
- R. Howard Webster Foundation$15K
- The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation$10K
- S.M. Blair Family Foundation$6,000
- TD Friends of the Environment Foundation$5,000
- The Canadian Association of Science Centres$800
- Uplands Charitable Foundation$750
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$126
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$27
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9996 positions
- $40,000–79,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions29
- Total compensation, all staff$1.8M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jackie Baird (treasurer); Jennifer Haley (director); Scott Gagnon (director); Scott Lecky (secretary); Mireille Lemire (vice chair); Chanelle Martel (director); Sylviane Duval (director); Clement Gwanyama (director); Mike Pescod (chair); Abraham Francis (director); Andrew Guidon (director); Dean Hollingworth (director); Kayla Sunday (director); Dena Rozon (director); Kaitlyn Russell (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from ST Lawrence River Institute of Environmental Sciences/l'institut des Sciences Environmentales du Fleuve Saint-Laurent’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 138852363RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.