Charity BreakdownCanadian charity filings, itemized

Swim Drink Fish Canada

Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 862622750RR0001 · Environment · website

Your $100, itemizedSwim Drink Fish CanadaFiscal year ended December 31, 2024
Charitable programs$73
Fundraising$12
Management & admin$11
Gifts to other charities$4
TOTAL$100
Registered

Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($4,110,758) as filed with the CRA.

Swim Drink Fish Canada is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under environment. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.9M in revenue and $4.1M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.

Its funding that year was roughly 24% from donations, 8% from government, 57% from other charities. In 2024, 26 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $838K.

Compared with 50 environmental charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 26% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 75% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 15 permanent full-time positions.

It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $165K in 2024, the largest being $165K to The Royal Canadian Geographical Society. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.

In its own words

1) Great Lakes Guide: Building a web platform to connect people to the Great Lakes and inspire a new generation of water guardians. 2) Swim Guide: Tracking water quality at over 8 000 beaches sharing daily water quality status updates in a smart phone app and website and publishing educational resources about swimmable waters 3) Recreational water quality monitoring 4) Watermark Project: A digital archive and website which collects stores and shares stories about Canadian relationships with water 5) The Great Lakes Communities Recreational Waters Monitoring Initiative: Develop and demonstr…

Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.

The ledger, 2020–2024

YearRevenueSpendingProgramsFundraisingGifts outNet assets
2024$1.9M$4.1M$3M$502K$165K$5.2M
2023$2.1M$2.4M$1.1M$807K—$7.4M
2022$2.4M$2.6M$1.5M$597K—$7.7M
2021$2.4M$2.4M$1.2M$160K$141K$7.9M
2020$1.9M$2M$1.1M$136K$75K$7.7M

Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.

Money between charities, 2024

Granted $165K to 1 qualified donee:

Received $838K from 26 charities:

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
  • $80,000–119,9991 position
  • $40,000–79,9998 positions
  • $1–39,9995 positions
  • Permanent full-time positions15
  • Total compensation, all staff$1M

Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.

Directors & trustees (2024)

Mark Mattson (president); Jennifer Baichwal (board member); Kevin Lowe (board member); Steven Joyce (board member); Lynda Gauthier (treasurer and vice chair); Kathleen Padulo (chair); Madhu Nagaraja (officer); Caroline Jimdar (officer); William Charnetski (officer).

As listed on its 2024 return.

Check the source

Every figure on this page is from Swim Drink Fish Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 862622750RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.