The Dragonfly Fund
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 768362147RR0001 · Environment
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,771,822) as filed with the CRA.
The Dragonfly Fund is a private foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under environment. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $5.6M in revenue and $1.8M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 91% from donations. In 2024, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $106K.
Compared with 50 environmental charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 85% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 2 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 40 qualified donees totalling $1.4M in 2024, the largest being $100K to The First Nations Technical Institute. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.4M in 2022 to $5.6M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 2 names.
In its own words
As a private foundation the charity only makes gifts to other qualified donnees at this time
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2022–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $5.6M | $1.8M | $229K | — | $1.4M | $4.1M |
| 2023 | $2.6M | $2.5M | $145K | — | $2.2M | $297K |
| 2022 | $1.4M | $1.2M | — | — | $1.1M | $154K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1.4M to 40 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- The First Nations Technical Institute$100K
- Environmental Defence Canada$100K
- Ecojustice Canada Society$84K
- Foodshare Toronto$77K
- The New Farm Centre for Climate Action$75K
- Small Change Fund$55K
- Salt Spring Institute for Sustainability Education & Action$50K
- Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment$50K
- Makeway Charitable Society$50K
- Farmers for Climate Solutions$45K
- Action Cancer du Sein du Québec - Breast Cancer Actio n Québec$40K
- Makeway Charitable Society$35K
- Ecojustice Canada Society$35K
- Makeway Charitable Society$35K
- The Society of High Prairie Regional Environmental Action Committee$34K
- The David Suzuki Foundation$33K
- Makeway Charitable Society$33K
- Women's Healthy Environment Network$32K
- Action Cancer du Sein du Québec - Breast Cancer Actio n Québec$32K
- Annaumakkaijiit Community Foundation$30K
- Ottawa Riverkeeper Inc.$30K
- The Governing Council of the University of Toronto$30K
- LI - the Leadership Institute$30K
- Sierra Club of British Columbia Foundation$27K
- Columbia Institute$27K
Received $106K from 2 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
- Permanent full-time positions2
- Total compensation, all staff$229K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Annabelle White (director); Wendy Cooper (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Dragonfly Fund’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 768362147RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.