The Pollution Probe Foundation
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 108092701RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($5,135,959) as filed with the CRA.
The Pollution Probe Foundation is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. 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, 2024, it reported $5M in revenue and $5.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 66% from government, 13% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 22 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $876K.
Compared with 47 grantmaking institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 41% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 83% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 11 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.7M in 2020 to $5M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Transportation: We develop tools to support rail decarbonization & monitor decarbonization efforts & best practices. We support the installation of new EV charging stations through a funding program which provides up to 50% of purchase & installation costs to eligible hosts. We conduct national surveys of EV owners to gauge the public EV charging experience & provide recommendations to industry & government on public EV charging. We assess the market readiness of emerging low-carbon on-road freight options. We research & conduct pilot projects on electric school buses & share findings with pu…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $5M | $5.1M | $4.3M | $368K | $0 | $588K |
| 2023 | $4.7M | $4.3M | $3.6M | $303K | $0 | $750K |
| 2022 | $2.9M | $2.8M | $2.3M | $180K | $500 | $323K |
| 2021 | $1.8M | $1.7M | $1.3M | $154K | $0 | $140K |
| 2020 | $1.7M | $1.8M | $1.2M | $356K | $0 | $20K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $876K from 22 charities:
- RBC Foundation$250K
- George and Helen Vari Foundation$180K
- Suncor Energy Foundation/fondation Suncor Energie$178K
- The Alberta Ecotrust Foundation$100K
- The Trottier Family Foundation/la Fondation Familiale Trottier$50K
- Canadahelps Canadon$31K
- Canadahelps Canadon$31K
- The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation$25K
- Green Communities Canada$14K
- The Schad Foundation$10K
- Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph in Canada$4,000
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$1,250
- Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal$500
- Fondation Philantra Philantra Foundation$500
- Flavelle Family Foundation$500
- Gandy Charitable Foundation$500
- United Way of Greater Toronto$250
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$195
- Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto$100
- Vancity Community Foundation$100
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$97
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$25
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9994 positions
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions11
- Total compensation, all staff$1.4M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Steve McCauley (board director); Robert Brophy (board director); Natasha Arsenijevich (board director); Parminder Sandhu (board director); Marianne Hatzopoulou (board director); Tim Hutzul (board director); Fern Tran (secretary); Christopher Hilkene (chief executor officer); Isabelle Des Chênes (board director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Pollution Probe Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 108092701RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.