The Primitive Integrated Naturalist Education (P.I.N.E.) Project
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 836645291RR0001 · Educational Organizations Not Elsewhere Categorized · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,792,638) as filed with the CRA.
The Primitive Integrated Naturalist Education (P.I.N.E.) Project is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under educational organizations not elsewhere categorized. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.7M in revenue and $1.8M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 11% from other charities. In 2024, 20 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $172K.
Compared with 632 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 49% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 94% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 10 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1M in 2020 to $1.7M in 2024.
In its own words
Weekly and monthly nature education programs for children families and adults day and overnight camps volunteer program.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.7M | $1.8M | $1.5M | $92K | — | $811K |
| 2023 | $1.8M | $1.6M | $1.4M | $109K | — | $903K |
| 2022 | $1.7M | $1.5M | $1.2M | $103K | — | $779K |
| 2021 | $1.2M | $1.1M | $863K | $40K | — | $668K |
| 2020 | $1M | $889K | $700K | $15K | — | $558K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $172K from 20 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$28K
- Canadahelps Canadon$28K
- The Chawkers foundation$20K
- Canada Gives$19K
- TD Friends of the Environment Foundation$17K
- Tippet Foundation$15K
- The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation$15K
- TD Securities Underwriting Hope Fund$7,500
- Moez & Marissa Kassam Foundation$5,000
- The McColl-Early Foundation$5,000
- The McLean Foundation$5,000
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$2,000
- Aqueduct Foundation$1,000
- The Azrieli Foundation$1,000
- The Toronto Star Children's Charities$880
- The Toronto Star Children's Charities$880
- The Toronto Star Children's Charities$880
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$825
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$539
- United Way of Greater Toronto$148
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9998 positions
- Permanent full-time positions10
- Total compensation, all staff$1.2M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Primitive Integrated Naturalist Education (P.I.N.E.) Project’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 836645291RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.