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GENERATE CANADA INC.

Charitable organizationEnvironment·400 - 215 SPADINA AVE · TORONTO, ON · M5T 2C7·BN 890803497RR0001·website ↗

Last reported: F2024 filing · period ending 2024-12-31

What it does — in its own words

Ongoing programs

Generate Canada is a national charity that connects problem-solvers across sectors and value chains to generate solutions to the most complex challenges at the nexus of environment economy and society. The organization’s vision is a strong and inclusive economy that thrives within nature’s limits. To advance that vision the organization creates and operates Solution Spaces - multi-stakeholder initiatives that foster deep collaboration between diverse partners to innovate test and scale solutions to 'wicked' sustainability challenges. These Solutions Spaces include the Canada Plastics P Show more

Generate Canada is a national charity that connects problem-solvers across sectors and value chains to generate solutions to the most complex challenges at the nexus of environment economy and society. The organization’s vision is a strong and inclusive economy that thrives within nature’s limits. To advance that vision the organization creates and operates Solution Spaces - multi-stakeholder initiatives that foster deep collaboration between diverse partners to innovate test and scale solutions to 'wicked' sustainability challenges. These Solutions Spaces include the Canada Plastics Pact working to keep plastics in our economy and out of people and nature; Circular Economy Leaders Canada working to eliminate waste and maximize the value of Canada’s supply chains; Energy Futures Lab fostering innovations that accelerate an inclusive Alberta and Canadian energy transition; the Nature Investment Hub working to increase investment fivefold in nature conservation restoration and stewardship; and CANZA (Canadian Alliance for Net-Zero Agri-food) focused on accelerating action for climate-smart agriculture. Solution Space teams advisory councils platforms and partnerships are all custom designed to address the specific problem each is working to solve. This enables flexibility to meet challenges where they are–an approach that is critical to driving pragmatic solutions.

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)

76¢

Per its F2024 T3010, 76¢ 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)

21%

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)

0.3 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)

$6.6M

Last-reported total revenue.

T3010 line 4700 · Self-reported on the T3010; not independently verified. source ↗

Donor-funded

T1 · computed (open data)

1%

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)

23%

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, 20192024.

Period endRevenueCents to causeOverheadReserves
2019-12-31$2.3M89¢11%0.9 yr
2020-12-31$2.4M90¢10%1.1 yr
2021-12-31$3.3M90¢10%0.8 yr
2022-12-31$4.2M88¢14%0.6 yr
2023-12-31$6.2M85¢15%0.3 yr
2024-12-31$6.6M76¢21%0.3 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)

Not rated by Charity Intelligence. Their analysts cover 618 of Canada's 83,761 charities; absence of a rating says nothing about this charity. Our computed figures above stand on their own.

Board of directors

12 directors reported · 12 of 12at arm's length

  • LABRIE, MARIE-HELENEDIRECTORarm's length
  • WRIGHT, CYNTHIACHAIRarm's length
  • MCCOLL, VELMADIRECTORarm's length
  • ELGIE, STEWARTDIRECTORarm's length
  • BLONSKI, KENTREASURERarm's length
  • MACDONALD, STEPHENDIRECTORarm's length
  • Liyanage, NishadiDirectorarm's length
  • Siddiqui, NuhaDirectorarm's length
  • Heintzman, AndrewDirectorarm's length
  • Solberg, MonteDirectorarm's length
  • Lépinoit, MarianneTreasurerarm's length
  • Watts, RobertDirectorarm'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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