The Julien Project-Using Gardening to Enrich Lives
Publicly funded institution · Guelph, Ontario · BN 825929359RR0001 · Public Amenities · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2021-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($47,829) as filed with the CRA.
The Julien Project-Using Gardening to Enrich Lives is a charitable organization based in Guelph, Ontario, classified by the CRA under public amenities. 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 March 31, 2021, it reported $58K in revenue and $48K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 15% from donations, 50% from government, 27% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2022, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $246.
Compared with 593 public-amenity institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 53% of peers.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
Social and therapeutic gardening supported volunteer program horticultural therapy education
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2021
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | $58K | $48K | $43K | — | — | $13K |
| 2020 | $61K | $59K | $52K | — | — | $2,595 |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2022
Received $246 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Total compensation, all staff$4,294
Schedule 3 of its 2021 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2021)
Sharon Stewart (director); Joshua Grignon (chair); Stuart McCartney (director); Lisa Redrup (director).
As listed on its 2021 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Julien Project-Using Gardening to Enrich Lives’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 825929359RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.