Angus Reid Institute
Private foundation · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 873344303RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($703,818) as filed with the CRA.
Angus Reid Institute is a private foundation based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending August 31, 2024, it reported $784K in revenue and $704K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 71% from donations. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $2.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 4% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 3 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 6 qualified donees totalling $193K in 2024, the largest being $100K to VGH & Ubc Hospital Foundation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $313K in 2020 to $784K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
Conduct and disseminate original publicly accessible and impartial statistical public opinion polling research and policy analysis.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $784K | $704K | — | — | $193K | $274K |
| 2023 | $907K | $674K | — | — | $150K | $194K |
| 2022 | $323K | $600K | — | — | — | -$39K |
| 2021 | $881K | $860K | — | — | $235K | $237K |
| 2020 | $313K | $497K | — | — | — | $216K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Private foundation — endowment and payout, August 31, 2024
- Receipted donations$560,535
- Other income$159,250
- Investment income$19,427
This ratio is gifts made divided by total assets at year end. It is not the CRA disbursement quota, which is calculated on the average value of property not used in charitable activities and cannot be derived from these filings.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $193K to 6 qualified donees:
Received $2 from 1 charity:
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
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions3
- Total compensation, all staff$419K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Angus Reid (director); Margaret Reid; Andrew Reid; Jennifer Reid.
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Angus Reid Institute’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 873344303RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.