Trec Charitable Foundation
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 837035468RR0001 · Educational Organizations Not Elsewhere Categorized · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($3,822,846) as filed with the CRA.
Trec Charitable Foundation is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under educational organizations not elsewhere categorized. 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 June 30, 2024, it reported $3.8M in revenue and $3.8M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 72% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 14 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $307K.
Compared with 1,247 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 63% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 96% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 9 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $788K in 2020 to $3.8M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
Trec charitable foundation delivers renewable energy and energy conservation school programs to elementary and secondary schools. Our programming offers field trips in-class workshops and presentations and annual events throughout the school year. We participate in community events with our hands-on activities to teach families about sustainable energy and protecting the enviroment. Our elementary programs focus on interactive lessons and design based project all connected to the ontario curriculum. Our secondary program teaches students about the green job sector and post secondary educati…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.8M | $3.8M | $3.5M | $85K | — | $314K |
| 2023 | $3.6M | $3.7M | $3.4M | $86K | — | $339K |
| 2022 | $1.8M | $1.6M | $1.4M | $101K | — | $420K |
| 2021 | $1.2M | $1M | $82K | $105K | — | $272K |
| 2020 | $788K | $801K | $551K | $128K | — | $146K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $307K from 14 charities:
- The Peter Gilgan Foundation$70K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$63K
- RBC Foundation$40K
- The M.H. Brigham Foundation$40K
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$30K
- The Chawkers foundation$20K
- TD Friends of the Environment Foundation$19K
- RBC Foundation$9,840
- Canadahelps Canadon$6,329
- The Winnipeg Foundation$6,140
- The Alberta Ecotrust Foundation$2,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$443
- The G & S Flint Foundation$200
- The Chatham Kent Community Foundation$0
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
- $40,000–79,99915 positions
- $1–39,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions9
- Total compensation, all staff$1.2M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Eitan Dehtiar (chair); Pamela Bastedo (secretary); Audrey Santa Domingo (treasurer); Scott Snowden (director); Daniel Deleary (director); Adam Beaumont (director); Chris Senior (director); Chris Lefebvre.
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Trec Charitable Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 837035468RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.