Charity BreakdownCanadian charity filings, itemized

Aga Khan Foundation Canada

Charitable organization · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 100072586RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website

Your $100, itemizedAga Khan Foundation CanadaFiscal year ended December 31, 2024
Charitable programs$52
Gifts to other charities$44
Fundraising$2
Management & admin$2
TOTAL$100
Registered

Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($122,426,023) as filed with the CRA.

Aga Khan Foundation Canada is a charitable organization based in Ottawa, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $136.5M in revenue and $122.4M in expenditures.

Its funding that year was roughly 56% from donations, 26% from government. In 2024, 56 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $10.2M.

Compared with 147 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 80% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 85% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $350,000 and over range (3 positions in that band). The charity reported 65 permanent full-time positions.

It reported gifts to 3 qualified donees totalling $53.4M in 2024, the largest being $51.4M to Aga Khan Foundation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $84.3M in 2020 to $136.5M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 14 names.

In its own words

Aga Khan Foundation Canada (AKFC) is a non-profit international development agency. Incorporated on July 3 1980 AKFC’s work covers two core lines of activity: programming related to international development and the acquisition and development of properties used for charitable purposes. Each of these areas are supported by separate funding streams. As part of the organization’s international development mandate AKFC supports programs in Africa and Asia which tackle interconnected issues in education health and nutrition agriculture and food security early childhood development work and…

Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.

The ledger, 2020–2024

YearRevenueSpendingProgramsFundraisingGifts outNet assets
2024$136.5M$122.4M$64.4M$2.3M$53.4M$431.5M
2023$100.6M$111.7M$57.1M$2.3M$50.3M$419.9M
2022$99M$103.2M$52.1M$2.2M$47M$430.9M
2021$105.9M$106.6M$42.6M$1.4M$60.4M$437.4M
2020$84.3M$160.8M$51M$1.5M$106.3M$438.1M

Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.

Money between charities, 2024

Granted $53.4M to 3 qualified donees:

Received $10.2M from 56 charities:

As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.

What it pays

Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:

  • $350,000 and over3 positions
  • $300,000–349,9991 position
  • $250,000–299,9992 positions
  • $200,000–249,9991 position
  • $160,000–199,9992 positions
  • $120,000–159,9991 position
  • Permanent full-time positions65
  • Total compensation, all staff$8.3M

Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.

Directors & trustees (2024)

Amyn Aga Khan (board member); Zahra Aga Khan (board member); Rahim Aga Khan (board member); Alan Abela (board member); Jane Piacentini-Moore (board member); Ameerally Kassim-Lakha (national committee member); Khalil Shariff (chief executive officer); Salim Ferozali (regional cfo north america); Noordin Nanji (national committee member); Natasha Walji (national committee member); Ayeesha Lalji (national committee member); Tasneem Rahim (national committee member); Nadim Hirji (national committee member); Noor Mohammed Wais (national committee member).

As listed on its 2024 return.

Check the source

Every figure on this page is from Aga Khan Foundation Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 100072586RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.