Canadian Centre for Housing Rights / Centre Canadien du Droit au logement
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 106897853RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,230,678) as filed with the CRA.
Canadian Centre for Housing Rights / Centre Canadien du Droit au logement is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. It appears on the charity register the way hospitals, universities, and other publicly funded bodies do — to issue tax receipts — rather than as a donation-driven charity in the usual sense. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $3.3M in revenue and $3.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 68% from government, 28% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 7 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $407K.
Compared with 1,618 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 36% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 92% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (10 positions in that band). The charity reported 29 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $656K in 2020 to $3.3M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
Canadian Centre for Housing Rights (CCHR) previously known as Centre for Equality Rights in Accommodation in Ontario (CERA) is one of Canada’s oldest not-for-profit charities working to advance the right to adequate housing. Founded in 1987 by a small group of Ontarians who were deeply concerned about discrimination in housing CCHR has worked tirelessly for over thirty years at the intersection of human rights and housing and is one of Canada’s leading NGOs working in the area of social and economic rights. CCHR works to advance the right to adequate housing by: - Serving renters to help the…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.3M | $3.2M | $2.8M | $146K | — | $221K |
| 2023 | $3.1M | $3.1M | $2.7M | — | — | — |
| 2022 | $1.7M | $1.6M | $1.6M | $12K | — | $77K |
| 2021 | $643K | $619K | $557K | — | — | $34K |
| 2020 | $656K | $644K | $575K | $1,297 | — | $10K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $407K from 7 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,99910 positions
- Permanent full-time positions29
- Total compensation, all staff$2M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Braden Root-McCaig (vice chair); Jack De Klerk (director); Bradly Jesson (co-chair); Mathieu Dagonas (director); Dennis Wong (co-chair & treasurer); Alyssa Brierley (director); Annie Kelly (director); Martine Brouillet (director); Scott Stirrett (director); Asad Said (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Canadian Centre for Housing Rights / Centre Canadien du Droit au logement’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 106897853RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.