Canada's National History Society/societe d'Histoire Nationale du Canada
Charitable organization · Winnipeg, Manitoba · BN 138681408RR0001 · Support of Schools and Education · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,593,420) as filed with the CRA.
Canada's National History Society/societe d'Histoire Nationale du Canada is a charitable organization based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, classified by the CRA under support of schools and education. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $3.7M in revenue and $3.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 12% from donations, 32% from government, 17% from other charities. In 2024, 30 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $835K.
Compared with 632 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 60% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 14 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 6 qualified donees totalling $74K in 2024, the largest being $25K to Cole Harbour Rural Heritage Society. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
Canada's history develops rescources to promote popular interest in canadian history and delivers across multiple platforms outreach educational activities and programs to engage canadians. The organization publishes 'canada's history' magazine and 'kayak: canada's history magazine for kids' and provides the public and educators with an online portal at canadashistory.ca and histoirecanada.ca. The organization administers the governor general's history awards which includes awards for excellence in: teaching popular media scholarly research museums and community programming and delive…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.7M | $3.6M | $3M | $126K | $136K | $679K |
| 2023 | $4.3M | $4.1M | $3.4M | $210K | $133K | $595K |
| 2022 | $3.3M | $3.2M | $2.7M | $166K | $38K | $439K |
| 2021 | $3.1M | $2.8M | $2.4M | $93K | $8,000 | $283K |
| 2020 | $3M | $3M | $2.5M | $151K | $4,200 | $32K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $74K to 6 qualified donees:
Received $835K from 30 charities:
- River Philip Foundation$205K
- Abundance Canada$150K
- The Wilson Foundation la Fondation Wilson$100K
- Hudson's Bay Company History Foundation$100K
- Rideau Hall Foundation$50K
- The Winnipeg Foundation$48K
- The Chawkers foundation$32K
- Canadahelps Canadon$25K
- Canadahelps Canadon$25K
- The Asper Foundation$25K
- GiftPact Foundation Inc.$19K
- Northern Legacy Foundation$15K
- The Bickle-Wilder Foundation$10K
- Daat Charitable Foundation$5,000
- The Douglas Family Foundation$5,000
- The McLean Foundation$5,000
- The Audrey Loeb and David Ross Foundation$3,000
- Cidel Foundation$2,500
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$2,450
- Fondation Philantra Philantra Foundation$2,000
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$1,130
- Douglas and Margaret Derry Foundation$1,000
- The Pollard Family Foundation Inc.$1,000
- WCPD Foundation$891
- The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act$600
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9994 positions
- $40,000–79,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions14
- Total compensation, all staff$1.3M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Bill Caulfeild-Browne (director); Timothy Cook (director); James Cowan (director); Magda Fahrni (director); Edward Kennedy (director); Michele Leduc (director); Bruce Maclellan (board chair); Sandra Martin (director); Natasha Pashak (director); Jennifer Rattray (director); Carla Peck (director); Michael Rea (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Canada's National History Society/societe d'Histoire Nationale du Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 138681408RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.