Environmental Defence Canada
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FINANCIAL TRANSPARENCY
Audited financial statements for current and previous years available on the charity’s website.
A
RESULTS REPORTING
Grade based on the charity's public reporting of the work it does and the results it achieves.
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DEMONSTRATED IMPACT
The demonstrated impact per dollar Ci calculates from available program information.
NEED FOR FUNDING
Charity's cash and investments (funding reserves) relative to how much it spends on programs in most recent year.
91%
CENTS TO THE CAUSE
For a dollar donated, after overhead costs of fundraising and admin/management (excluding surplus) 91 cents are available for programs.
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OVERVIEW
About Environmental Defence Canada:
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Results and Impact
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Finances
Environmental Defence Canada received $5.4m in donations in F2022. Administrative costs are 6% of revenue and fundraising costs are 3% of donations. This results in total overhead spending of 9%. For every dollar donated to the charity, 91 cents are available to go to the cause, which is within Ci’s reasonable range. Environmental Defence Canada's audited financial statements do not disclose fundraising costs. Audited financial statements and T3010 CRA filing do not disclose fundraising and administrative costs. Program, administrative and fundraising costs have been allocated by Ci based on line items in the charity's T3010 filing, thus they may not be accurate.
The charity has $4.3m in reserve funds which can cover 127%, or one year and three months of its annual program costs.
Environmental Defence Canada uses external fundraisers as part of its fundraising activities. In F2022, EDC reported paying $22k to external fundraisers who raised $193k. This means EDC paid 11 cents for every dollar raised by external fundraisers.
This charity report is an update that has been sent to Environmental Defence Canada for review. Changes and edits may be forthcoming.
Updated on June 20, 2023 by Liam Chapleau.
Financial Review
Fiscal year ending March
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2022 | 2021 | 2020 |
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Administrative costs as % of revenues | 6.0% | 4.9% | 11.8% |
Fundraising costs as % of donations | 2.7% | 9.5% | 5.7% |
Total overhead spending | 8.7% | 14.3% | 17.5% |
Program cost coverage (%) | 126.6% | 95.8% | 31.1% |
Summary Financial StatementsAll figures in $s |
2022 | 2021 | 2020 |
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Donations | 5,399,409 | 4,204,186 | 3,464,691 |
Government funding | 0 | 440,205 | 62,425 |
Other income | 32,626 | 17,824 | (478,433) |
Total revenues | 5,432,035 | 4,662,215 | 3,048,683 |
Program costs | 3,428,814 | 2,513,068 | 2,666,666 |
Administrative costs | 326,782 | 226,691 | 360,854 |
Fundraising costs | 145,457 | 398,159 | 197,863 |
Total spending | 3,901,053 | 3,137,918 | 3,225,383 |
Cash flow from operations | 1,530,982 | 1,524,297 | (176,700) |
Capital spending | 5,711 | 51,769 | 0 |
Funding reserves | 4,339,768 | 2,407,417 | 829,256 |
Note: Ci accounted for deferred contributions, impacting donations by $969k in F2022 and $1.0m in F2021. The charity did not disclose the source of deferred contributions in F2020, therefore deferred donations impacted other revenue by ($493k) in F2020. EDC reported government funding as a decrease to its expenses in F2021. Ci included government funding within revenue, increasing revenue and expenses by ($nil) in F2022, $440k in F2021, and ($nil) in F2020.
Salary Information
$350k + |
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$300k - $350k |
0 |
$250k - $300k |
0 |
$200k - $250k |
0 |
$160k - $200k |
0 |
$120k - $160k |
1 |
$80k - $120k |
5 |
$40k - $80k |
4 |
< $40k |
0 |
Information from most recent CRA Charities Directorate filings for F2022
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Comments & Contact
Comments added by the Charity:
In FY 2021-22, Environmental Defence had a number of staff changes which resulted in many of the 37 staff not being employed for the full year. Consequently, the average compensation is not reflective of actual compensation. If total compensation (including benefits) is divided by FTEs (27.02), average compensation is $65,830.67.
Updated on August 21, 2023
The charity added the following comments to a previous profile. New comments may be forthcoming.
Environmental Defence reports revenue on an accrual basis to match restricted programmatic revenue to the corresponding expenses. Consequently, the reporting of our revenue on a cash basis does not accurately reflect the revenue of that fiscal or accurately match revenues and expenditures.
Environmental Defence seeks to achieve and report on program outcomes not on activity outputs. As a result, we do not believe that reporting on outputs accurately reflects our organization’s track record of success.
Updated on August 11, 2022
Environmental Defence’s donor strategy is focused on securing support from monthly donors. Since monthly donors typically continue to give to our organization for 5+ years, the revenue generated by these new monthly donors in the year acquired does not accurately reflect the total revenue that will be generated over that time against the fundraising costs incurred to acquire them in the current year. Consequently, the ratio of dollars paid for every dollar raised by external fundraisers is not accurate and greatly overstates the actual costs.
Updated on September 14, 2020
Charity Contact
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