Amnesty International Canadian Section (english Speaking)
Charitable organization · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 118785914RR0005 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($110,718) 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 $63K in revenue and $111K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 94% from other charities. In 2024, 9 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $114K.
Compared with 1,274 community-service charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 22% of peers.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $38K in 2024, the largest being $38K to Amnesty International Canadian Section (english Speaking). Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
Amnesty international toronto organization (aito) is the co-ordinating body serving the amnesty groups networks teams and general membership in the greater gta. It: 1. Promotes communication linkages joint campaigning on human rights efforts and co-ordination among local ai groups networks teams campaigns and members. 2. Raises public awareness educates and involves the gta community in human rights issues and campaigns through campaign events public events educational materials fundraising website and merchandising of ai branded goods. 3. Promotes and protects human rights through…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $63K | $111K | $28K | — | $38K | $102K |
| 2023 | $62K | $106K | $16K | — | $21K | $112K |
| 2022 | $64K | $55K | $3,186 | — | $43K | $156K |
| 2021 | $75K | $30K | $345 | — | $20K | $148K |
| 2020 | $51K | $34K | $4,079 | — | $9,000 | $103K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $38K to 1 qualified donee:
Received $114K from 9 charities:
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$28K
- Canadahelps Canadon$27K
- Canadahelps Canadon$27K
- The Fitzhenry Family Foundation$20K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$8,137
- United Way of Greater Toronto$1,596
- The United Church of Canada Foundation$1,500
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$37
- My Tribute Gift Foundation—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Shahin Hirji (chair); Duncan Garrow (vice-chair); Patricia Grenier (treasurer); Lisa Swainston (director-at-large); Corey Smith (secretary); Saba Abbas (director-at-large); Micah Molina (director-at-large).
As listed on its 2024 return.
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 118785914RR0005), or read how we compute the receipt.