Amnesty International Canadian Section (english Speaking)
Charitable organization · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 118785914RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($16,203,080) as filed with the CRA.
Amnesty International Canadian Section (english Speaking) is a charitable organization based in Ottawa, Ontario, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $14.6M in revenue and $16.2M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 92% from donations. In 2024, 118 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.1M.
Compared with 34 community-service charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 3% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 45 permanent full-time positions.
In its own words
Amnesty international plays a role in the international protection of human rights. The organization takes action to stop grave abuses of rights to physical and mental integrity freedom of conscience and expression and freedom from discrimination.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $14.6M | $16.2M | $10.9M | $4.1M | — | $2.9M |
| 2023 | $15.3M | $16M | $9.8M | $5M | — | $4.5M |
| 2022 | $17.2M | $16.7M | $10.8M | $4.9M | — | $5.2M |
| 2021 | $17.6M | $16.5M | $10M | $5.5M | — | $4.7M |
| 2020 | $14.5M | $14.5M | $8.5M | $5M | — | $3.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $1.1M from 118 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$196K
- Canadahelps Canadon$196K
- Aqueduct Foundation$65K
- Unifor Social Justice Fund/Le fonds de justice sociale d'Unifor$50K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$45K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$41K
- Ptarmigan Charitable Foundation$40K
- Amnesty International Canadian Section (english Speaking)$38K
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$33K
- Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph in Canada$30K
- Oakville Community Foundation$29K
- The David and Patricia Morton Family Foundation$25K
- Link Charity Canada Inc$21K
- Abundance Canada$20K
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$14K
- The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act$11K
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$11K
- Vancouver Foundation$10K
- The Daly Foundation$10K
- Lee Tak Wai Foundation$10K
- Wesley M Nicol Foundation$10K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$9,949
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$9,585
- Cut Foundation$9,000
- The United Church of Canada Foundation$5,500
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9994 positions
- $80,000–119,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions45
- Total compensation, all staff$6.7M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Amnesty International Canadian Section (english Speaking)’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118785914RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.