Tree Canada / Arbres Canada
Charitable organization · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 137708509RR0001 · Public Amenities · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($11,776,172) as filed with the CRA.
Tree Canada / Arbres Canada is a charitable organization based in Ottawa, Ontario, classified by the CRA under public amenities. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $14.3M in revenue and $11.8M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 14% from donations, 22% from government, 12% from other charities. In 2024, 35 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.3M.
Compared with 46 public-amenity charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 44% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 32 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $4.4M in 2020 to $14.3M in 2024.
In its own words
• Greening Canada's School Grounds - Tree Canada supports tree and shrubs planting projects in educational institutions across Canada. • Edible Trees - Tree Canada promotes the planting and maintenance of fruit and nut-bearing trees in communities on publicly-accessible sites. • National Greening Program - mass seedling planting program across Canada. Projects take place every year in each of 5 regions: British Columbia (BC) Prairies (AB SK MB) Ontario (ON) Quebec (QC) and Atlantic (PE NB NS NL) targeting areas where there is a need for reforestation or afforestation due to human act…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $14.3M | $11.8M | $9.6M | $1.1M | $36K | $13.8M |
| 2023 | $10.8M | $7.8M | $6.5M | $649K | $93K | $11.3M |
| 2022 | $8.6M | $6.3M | $5.1M | $576K | — | $8.3M |
| 2021 | $5M | $4.1M | $3.1M | $487K | — | $6M |
| 2020 | $4.4M | $4.5M | $3.9M | $226K | $0 | $1.4M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $1.3M from 35 charities:
- Roses of Hope Foundation$250K
- The Winnipeg Foundation$200K
- Grapes for Humanity$163K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$118K
- RBC Foundation$100K
- The Dani Reiss Foundation$75K
- The KPMG Foundation/la Fondation KPMG$71K
- Canadahelps Canadon$57K
- Canadahelps Canadon$57K
- Graham Munro Charitable Foundation$50K
- Toronto Foundation$50K
- Beedie Foundation$25K
- Definity Insurance Foundation$20K
- The Schad Foundation$10K
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$10K
- The Cowan Foundation$6,000
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$5,297
- College de l'Ouest de l'Ile Inc./ West Island College Inc.$5,200
- The Chawkers foundation$5,000
- T.R. Meighen Family Foundation/Fondation de la Famille T.R. Meighen$5,000
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$3,923
- C And C Family Foundation$3,500
- Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal$2,600
- BenefAction Foundation$1,331
- Link Charity Canada Inc$1,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9994 positions
- $80,000–119,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions32
- Total compensation, all staff$2.1M
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 Tree Canada / Arbres Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 137708509RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.