Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives / Centre Canadien de Politiques Alternatives
Publicly funded institution · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 124146473RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($7,745,099) as filed with the CRA.
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives / Centre Canadien de Politiques Alternatives is a charitable organization based in Ottawa, Ontario, classified by the CRA under teaching institutions. 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 December 31, 2024, it reported $6.3M in revenue and $7.7M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 45% from donations, 10% from government, 8% from other charities. In 2024, 47 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $702K.
Compared with 1,247 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 6% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 79% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 37 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 26 names.
In its own words
1. Social scientific research about economic social and environmental public policy issues of relevance to Canadian society. 2. Analysis of and commentary about public policy decisions and proposals. 3. Educational activities including disseminating information and opinions to the public through educational reports studies commentaries fact sheets infographics newsletters and a periodical covering issues of relevance to public policy development and debates. 4. Public policy development advocacy activities and making submissions to governments.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $6.3M | $7.7M | $4.4M | $1.8M | $0 | $564K |
| 2023 | $7.6M | $7.6M | $4.4M | $1.8M | $0 | $2M |
| 2022 | $6.6M | $7.1M | $3.9M | $1.6M | $0 | $1.9M |
| 2021 | $6.6M | $6.6M | $3.7M | $1.6M | $0 | $2.4M |
| 2020 | $6.8M | $5.8M | $3.2M | $1.4M | $0 | $2.4M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $702K from 47 charities:
- The Victoria Foundation$153K
- The Holdsworth Foundation$100K
- Avanti Foundation$75K
- Aqueduct Foundation$71K
- Canadahelps Canadon$58K
- Canadahelps Canadon$58K
- Vancouver Foundation$51K
- The Winnipeg Foundation$33K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$19K
- The Illahie Foundation$10K
- Salal Foundation$10K
- The Atkinson Charitable Foundation$6,000
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$6,000
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$5,920
- Vancity Community Foundation$5,000
- The Guelph Community Foundation$4,600
- Abundance Canada$3,950
- Canada Gives$3,000
- The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act$2,729
- Makeway Foundation$2,700
- Vancity Community Foundation$2,500
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$2,474
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$2,160
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$1,806
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$1,800
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
- $160,000–199,9993 positions
- $120,000–159,9996 positions
- Permanent full-time positions37
- Total compensation, all staff$5.4M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Grace-Edward Galabuzi (director (diversity-offices)); Bernice Pontanilla (director (office-mb)); Michael Belmore (director (office-on)); Morna Ballantyne (director (office-nat.)); Eve-Lyne Couturier (director (office-nat.)); Justine De Jaegher (director (orgs.)); Mark Hudson (director & interim chair); David Lambert (director (diversity-orgs.)); Sussanne Skidmore (director (office-bc)); Charles Smith (director (office-sk)); Timothy Stratford (director (office-ns)); Howard West (director (orgs.)); Geoffrey Bickerton (director & interim chair); Ann Iwanchuk (director (orgs.)); Brianne-Ashley Goertzen (director (office-mb)); Cynthia Taylor (director (office-mb)); Isaac Cockburn (director (orgs.)); Jason MacLean (director (orgs./treasurer)); Kaley Kennedy (director (office-ns)); Tracey Black (director (office-bc)); Nora Loreto (chair/president); Riccardo Filippone (director (orgs.)); Roxanne Dubois (director (office-nat.)); Tania Jarzebiak (director (orgs.)); Wayne Antony (director (office-mb)); James Coccola (director (office-bc)).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives / Centre Canadien de Politiques Alternatives’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 124146473RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.