Canadian Association for Graduate Studies / Association Canadienne pour les Etudes Superieures
Charitable organization · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 889494175RR0001 · Support of Schools and Education · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($512,460) as filed with the CRA.
Canadian Association for Graduate Studies / Association Canadienne pour les Etudes Superieures is a charitable organization based in Ottawa, Ontario, classified by the CRA under support of schools and education. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $593K in revenue and $512K in expenditures.
In 2023, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $2,000.
Compared with 1,764 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 65% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 2 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $292K in 2020 to $593K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 15 names.
In its own words
To provide leadership and foster collaboration to advance excellence in graduate education research and scholarship; to organize an annual conference that provides deans administrators and graduate students with an opportunity to identify and discuss issues touching on graduate studies on the national level; to produce best practice papers and working and discussion papers that provide guidance to deans administrators and graduate or prospective students; to undertake an annual competition for the best thesis in each of the humanities and social sciences and administrators that helps to sha…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $593K | $512K | $462K | — | — | $333K |
| 2023 | $505K | $428K | $366K | — | — | $252K |
| 2022 | $471K | $556K | $352K | — | — | $181K |
| 2021 | $401K | $434K | $400K | — | — | $266K |
| 2020 | $292K | $247K | $206K | — | — | $300K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2023
Received $2,000 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions2
- Total compensation, all staff$202K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2023)
Karine Awashish (director); Josée Bastien (director); Jeff Derksen (director); Jennifer Polk (director); Fahim Quadir (director); Angela Rooke (director); Adam Sarty (director); Aziz Douai (director); Philippe-Edwin Belanger (director); Michele Jacobsen (director); Mabel Ho (director); Effrosyni Diamantoudi; Naima Samuel; Robin Hicks; Shawn Fraser.
As listed on its 2023 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Canadian Association for Graduate Studies / Association Canadienne pour les Etudes Superieures’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 889494175RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.