Agora Foundation
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 118778703RR0001 · Support of Schools and Education · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-01-31. Split of total expenditures ($571,246) as filed with the CRA.
Agora Foundation is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under support of schools and education. In its fiscal year ending January 31, 2024, it reported $409K in revenue and $571K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 67% from other charities. In 2024, 3 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $296K.
Compared with 1,764 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 94% of peers.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $139K in 2020 to $409K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
Agora foundation's purpose is to provide directly or indirectly educational research and administrative resources and facilities to encourage individuals to assume the responsible role in society to promote in a non-partisan manner a better understanding of the theory and practice of democracy and to promote such charitable purposes as the directors consider advisable.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $409K | $571K | $571K | — | — | $2.6M |
| 2023 | $278K | $388K | $388K | — | — | $2.7M |
| 2022 | $165K | $362K | $362K | — | — | $3M |
| 2021 | $169K | $310K | $310K | — | — | $3M |
| 2020 | $139K | $233K | $233K | — | — | $3.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $296K from 3 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Bill Pashby (director); Gordon Floyd (director); Susan Rowbottom (secretary treasurer); Patti Pon (vice president); Pedro Barata (director); Lynne Toupin (president); Raine Liliefeldt (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Agora Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118778703RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.