Product Care Recycling
Legal name: Product Care Association of Canada
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 980701785
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Vancouver, BC, CA
- Phone
- 604-592-2972
- Rating
- 64
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Pollution Abatement and Control Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $39,115,213
- Expenses
- $40,718,601
- Assets
- $50,844,865
- Liabilities
- $4,661,841
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BRIAN BASTIEN (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- MANNIE CHEUNG (VP, OPERATIONS): $218,072 total reported compensation
- BRIAN BASTIEN (PRESIDENT): $192,435 total reported compensation
- MARK KURSCHNER (VP, LEGAL): $64,450 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Protecting the environment by providing Canadians with recycling solutions.
What it reported doing in 2024
Product care's programs help protect the environment by diverting leftover and end of life products from landfills, waterways, and sewers. Product care provides consumers with a collection system network for the products it manages. The collected products are then reused or recycled where possible.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 89% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 45
- Accountability: 77
- Sustainability: 40
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 76.3%; rating input score 76
- Program expense ratio: 82.3%; rating input score 82
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 44
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -4.1%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.25; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.09; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.2%; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.6% per year; rating input score 100; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.4% per year; rating input score 100; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.4% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 9 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 10 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 76.3% of revenue deployed · 82.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 4 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $33.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $218K · 16 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $10.3M reported
- Consistency: 30 of 31 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes foreign activity and executive pay
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2016 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 9 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 18/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 44/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.