Toronto Botanical Garden
Legal name on the register: TORONTO BOTANICAL GARDEN
- Identifier
- CA-E-4W52-VD5X
- Address
- 777 LAWRENCE AVE E, NORTH YORK, ON, M3C 1P2
- Earliest record
- September 1, 2016
- Charity registration
- 119227486RR0001
- Business number
- 119227486
- Toronto licence
- P45-5328271
This scores the depth of the public evidence assembled here. It does not score the organisation’s quality, reputation, solvency or risk. The formula is fixed and reproducible. See the formula.
Additional graph evidence outside the score: 9 organisation connections.
Where this organisation appears in public records
Eight independent dimensions describe the size and shape of the evidence. They are deliberately not added into one company score: a licence, a grant, a director filing and a court finding mean different things.
A larger bar means more public records of that kind. It does not mean better, worse, safer, larger, more profitable or more reputable.
Each dimension uses fixed, logarithmic caps so one dataset with thousands of repeated rows cannot drown out every other fact. Read the formula and limits.
| Registrar | Instrument | Number | Registered | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canada Revenue Agency | Registered charity | 119227486RR0001 | — | Registered |
| Place | Category | Number | First issued | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Toronto | NOISE EXEMPTION | P45-5328271 | July 13, 2023 | Cancelled |
A licence records permission to operate. It is issued by a municipality, not by a corporate registrar, and its presence says the organisation traded at that address on that date — nothing about whether it does today.
| Name | Position | Serving since | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nicholas Brearton | Director | October 21, 2024 | current |
| Lucie Gauvin | Director | June 21, 2024 | current |
| Claudia Alvarenga | Treasurer | June 20, 2024 | current |
| Deborah Maw | Ex-officio Garden Club of Tor | June 20, 2024 | current |
| Mark Pratt | Director | June 20, 2024 | current |
| Nancy Tong | Ex-officio Milne House Garden | June 20, 2024 | current |
| Martin Ira Ship | Director Vice Chair | June 20, 2023 | current |
| Michael Erdman | Director/Ex-Officio | June 20, 2023 | current |
| Doris Leu Chee | Director Secretary | June 9, 2022 | current |
| Haig Seferian | Director | June 9, 2022 | current |
| Susan Grundy | Director Vice Chair | August 27, 2021 | current |
| Tonino DiGiovanni | Director Chair | June 18, 2021 | current |
| Barbara Anie | Director | June 18, 2021 | current |
| Dianne Azzarello | Director | June 18, 2021 | current |
| Adeline Cheng | Director | June 18, 2021 | current |
| Michele Chandler | Director | June 18, 2021 | current |
| Benjamin Cullen | Director | June 18, 2021 | current |
| Margareth Gault | Director | June 18, 2021 | current |
| Gordon Ashworth | Board Director | November 28, 2019 | current |
| Christina Iacovino | Ex Officio - City of Toronto | November 28, 2019 | current |
| Derryn Gill | Director/ Ex Offico | June 9, 2022 | ended June 20, 2024 |
| Lisa Ellis | Director | June 18, 2021 | ended June 20, 2024 |
| Abdullah Hamidi | Director | June 18, 2021 | ended August 16, 2024 |
| Janice Winton | Director Treasurer | September 30, 2020 | ended June 20, 2024 |
Filed by the charity itself with the Canada Revenue Agency, under the Open Government Licence. This is the narrowest slate the source publishes — name, position, and tenure only; no address, phone, or email exists in the file to withhold. Why this is published and directors’ home addresses never are.
Every one of these rests on a single name in common, which is the weakest form this evidence takes — read them as leads, not findings.
| Organisation | Kind | Names in common |
|---|---|---|
| Entraide Bécancour INC. CA-E-FSW3-HPWW | Registered charity | 1 |
| Leecaring Communities Foundation CA-E-YH2X-467N | Registered charity | 1 |
| Open Arms Children's Foundation CA-E-NVQK-TZ24 | Registered charity | 1 |
| Schools of Dreams Inc. CA-E-GW1J-CMQQ | Registered charity | 1 |
| St Michael's College School CA-E-TQTA-3643 | Registered charity | 1 |
| Tafelmusik CA-E-R1MY-3QJS | Registered charity | 1 |
| The Costume Society Of Ontario CA-E-PN0F-2EPD | Registered charity | 1 |
| Vha Home Healthcare CA-E-6P1Y-YT2K | Registered charity | 1 |
| West Park Healthcare Centre Foundation CA-E-B13H-6Z1R | Registered charity | 1 |
The link is between organisations and carries only a count. Which people sit on which board stays on each organisation’s own page, exactly as the CRA published it, and there is deliberately no way here to search by a person or to list what one individual is involved in. Why that line is drawn there.
- Total revenue
- $3,856,413
- Total spending
- $3,444,736
- Total assets
- $3,002,449
- Total liabilities
- $2,282,525
- Receipted donations
- $965,671
- From other charities
- $42,193
A low share spent on programs is not by itself evidence of anything. Fundraising costs money, a year of building a reserve looks like underspending, and grant-making foundations pass money onward rather than running programs. The lines are shown as filed, with the CRA line numbers, so a reader can check them against the return.
across 7 agreements, 2016–2026
| Paying institution | Awards | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Canadian Heritage | 2 | $411,200 |
| Employment and Social Development Canada | 5 | $86,153 |
Awards are attached to this record only where the evidence identifies exactly one organisation: a name and postal area that narrow to a single company, or a name unique across the whole national corpus. Proactive publication truncates the vendor postal code to three characters, so anything that could belong to more than one company is left unattached rather than guessed at. Totals are a floor in that direction. The full rules.
- Licensed as
- NOISE EXEMPTION
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$12,000
- Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$41,718
- Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$16,060
- Licence first issued — NOISE EXEMPTION
- Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$10,024
- Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$8,859
- Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$9,492
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$399,200
5 public datasets from 3 independent publishers describe this organisation. They were joined into one record because the evidence below agreed — never on a matching name alone.
- Same name and postal code M3C 1P2asserted by Canada Revenue Agency and City of Toronto (Municipal Licensing and Standards)
An automatic merge requires a shared business number, or a matching name AND address — never a name by itself. How resolution works.
| Dataset | Last captured | Cadence | Coverage kept | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Registered charities — directors and officers (2024 returns) Canada Revenue Agency · Open Government Licence – Canada | September 2, 2026 | P1Y | 1 captures · 0 comparisons | current |
| Registered charities — financial data (2024 returns) Canada Revenue Agency · Open Government Licence – Canada | September 5, 2026 | P1Y | 1 captures · 0 comparisons | current |
| Registered charities — identification (2024 returns) Canada Revenue Agency · Open Government Licence – Canada | September 8, 2026 | P1Y | 2 captures · 1 comparisons | current |
| Proactive disclosure — federal grants and contributions Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat · Open Government Licence – Canada | September 3, 2026 | P3M | 1 captures · 0 comparisons | current |
| Toronto business licences and permits City of Toronto (Municipal Licensing and Standards) · Open Government Licence – Toronto | October 25, 2026 | P1D | 10 captures · 9 comparisons | current |
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