ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE CANADA
Charitable organizationCommunity resource·33 CECIL ST · TORONTO, ON · M5T 1N1·BN 118830835RR0001·website ↗
Last reported: F2024 filing · period ending 2024-03-31
What it does — in its own words
Ongoing programs
Environmental Defence's activity in 2023-2024 was focused mainly on our work in clean economy promoting livable communities protecting Canadians from toxics protecting clean water and addressing plastic pollution. Our clean economy work highlighted the environmental social and economic risks of fossil fuels development and highlighted the benefits of taking action on climate change. We also focused on the government’s commitment to phase out fossil fuel subsidies. And we engaged with the federal government’s commitments to put a cap on oil and gas emissions and implement clean electricity … Show more
Environmental Defence's activity in 2023-2024 was focused mainly on our work in clean economy promoting livable communities protecting Canadians from toxics protecting clean water and addressing plastic pollution. Our clean economy work highlighted the environmental social and economic risks of fossil fuels development and highlighted the benefits of taking action on climate change. We also focused on the government’s commitment to phase out fossil fuel subsidies. And we engaged with the federal government’s commitments to put a cap on oil and gas emissions and implement clean electricity regulations. We engaged with the government of Ontario on their plan to address the environment and encouraged Ontarians to state their opinion with elected representatives. We worked to raise awareness of the potential impacts of a new 400-series highway in the Greater Toronto Area. We also turned our attention to the growing threat of plastic pollution in the environment including plastic beverage containers in Ontario and worked to see Canada commit to addressing plastics at the national and international level. Our Toxics work continues to educate on the need for reform of the chemicals management plan to further protect Canadian
Program descriptions from its F2024 T3010 filing, verbatim · self-reported · this is also the text our semantic search matches against. source ↗
Tier 1 — what we computed (open data)
From the charity's own F2024 T3010 filing. Self-reported; not independently verified. You can recompute every figure.
Cents to cause
T1 · computed (open data)77¢
Per its F2024 T3010, 77¢ of each dollar spent went to programs.
Sector median: 89¢ across 55,155 computed charities.
T3010 line 5000 ÷ 4950 · Self-reported on the T3010; not independently verified. source ↗
Operating overhead
T1 · computed (open data)23%
Management, administration, and fundraising as a share of total spending. We treat 5–35% as the typical range; we state the figure, you judge.
T3010 line (5010 + 5020) ÷ 4950 · Self-reported on the T3010; not independently verified. source ↗
Reserves
T1 · computed (open data)1.3 yr
Years current reserves could cover program spending.
Sector quartiles: 0.4 yr / 0.8 yr / 7.5 yr (p25 / median / p90).
T3010 line (4100 + 4140) ÷ 5000 · Self-reported on the T3010; not independently verified. source ↗
Total revenue
T1 · computed (open data)$6.9M
Last-reported total revenue.
T3010 line 4700 · Self-reported on the T3010; not independently verified. source ↗
Donor-funded
T1 · computed (open data)28%
Share of revenue from receipted donations.
T3010 line 4500 ÷ 4700 · Self-reported on the T3010; not independently verified. source ↗
Government-funded
T1 · computed (open data)0%
Share of revenue from federal, provincial, and municipal sources.
T3010 line 4570 (or 4540+4550+4560) ÷ 4700 · Self-reported on the T3010; not independently verified. source ↗
Over the years
Every figure as filed at each fiscal period end, 2019–2024.
| Period end | Revenue | Cents to cause | Overhead | Reserves |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-03-31 | $3.7M | 71¢ | 29% | 0.5 yr |
| 2020-03-31 | $3.5M | — | — | — |
| 2021-03-31 | $3.2M | — | — | — |
| 2022-03-31 | $4.5M | — | — | — |
| 2023-03-31 | $5.4M | — | — | — |
| 2024-03-31 | $6.9M | 77¢ | 23% | 1.3 yr |
| trend |
From its T3010 filings (CRA annual releases) · self-reported, not audited by us · when a period is restated in a later release, the newest figures are shown · ✱ = cents-to-cause outside the valid 0–100% range (filing error; not used in rankings). source ↗
★ Tier 2 — Charity Intelligence (analyst-reviewed)
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Overall rating
★ T2 · Charity Intelligence★★★★
Charity Intelligence's 0–5 star overall rating.
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Results reporting
★ T2 · Charity IntelligenceA-
How well the charity reports its own results (A+ to F).
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Demonstrated impact
★ T2 · Charity Intelligence—
Charity Intelligence's assessment of impact per dollar.
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Board of directors
13 directors reported · 13 of 13at arm's length
- Best, BruceDirectorarm's length
- Crerar, FatimaChair and Presidentarm's length
- Davies, RobertDirectorarm's length
- Ivey, JenniferDirectorarm's length
- Perley, MichaelDirectorarm's length
- Abrams, StephenSecretaryarm's length
- Seymour, KathrynDirectorarm's length
- Stevenson, EricPast Presidentarm's length
- Rand, Tom P.Directorarm's length
- Chamerlain, AlexTreasurerarm's length
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- Simmonds, LaurieDirectorarm's length
- Ogilvie, JosephDirectorarm's length
- Chotalia, ShivaniDirectorarm's length
From its F2024T3010 filing (public CRA record), as filed. “Arm's length” means not related to other officials by family or business ties. source ↗
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