Toronto Botanical Garden
Charitable organization · North York, Ontario · BN 119227486RR0001 · Public Amenities · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,444,736) as filed with the CRA.
Toronto Botanical Garden is a charitable organization based in North York, Ontario, classified by the CRA under public amenities. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $3.9M in revenue and $3.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 25% from donations. In 2024, 14 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $408K.
Compared with 414 public-amenity charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 19% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 10 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 20 names.
In its own words
To enable Toronto Botanical Garden's mission vision and values: Mission Toronto Botanical Garden connects people and plants fostering sustainable communities and developing reciprocal relationships with nature through lifelong learning.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.9M | $3.4M | $2M | $517K | — | $720K |
| 2023 | $3.1M | $3.7M | $2.2M | $589K | — | $304K |
| 2022 | $3.2M | $3.1M | $1.9M | $486K | — | $874K |
| 2021 | $3.1M | $3.1M | $1.9M | $596K | — | $451K |
| 2020 | $2.7M | $2.8M | $1.4M | $762K | $0 | $431K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $408K from 14 charities:
- The Dalglish Family Foundation$100K
- The Clearview Foundation$100K
- Edwards Charitable Foundation$90K
- The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation$25K
- Toronto Foundation$24K
- Park People$20K
- Fondation Écho /echo Foundation$17K
- Green Communities Canada$13K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$7,940
- TD Friends of the Environment Foundation$5,200
- Cidel Foundation$2,500
- Canadahelps Canadon$2,418
- BenefAction Foundation$1,000
- The Henry White Kinnear Foundation$500
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
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions10
- Total compensation, all staff$1.4M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Claudia Alvarenga (treasurer); Nicholas Brearton (director); Lucie Gauvin (director); Deborah Maw (ex-officio garden club of tor); Mark Pratt (director); Nancy Tong (ex-officio milne house garden); Gordon Ashworth (board director); Christina Iacovino (ex officio - city of toronto); Tonino DiGiovanni (director chair); Barbara Anie (director); Dianne Azzarello (director); Adeline Cheng (director); Michele Chandler (director); Benjamin Cullen (director); Margareth Gault (director); Susan Grundy (director vice chair); Doris Leu Chee (director secretary); Haig Seferian (director); Martin Ira Ship (director vice chair); Michael Erdman (director/ex-officio).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Toronto Botanical Garden’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119227486RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.