Canadian Constitution Foundation
Charitable organization · Calgary, Alberta · BN 866176654RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,106,979) as filed with the CRA.
Canadian Constitution Foundation is a charitable organization based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $2.2M in revenue and $2.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 37% from donations, 58% from other charities. In 2024, 26 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $880K.
Compared with 299 community-service charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 24% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $300,000–349,999 range. The charity reported 7 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
The mission of the canadian constitution foundation is to defend and promote constitutional freedoms of canadians through litigation and education via pro bono court challenges legal seminars development of student chapters at law schools legal research and publications.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.2M | $2.1M | $1.6M | $358K | — | $3M |
| 2023 | $2.1M | $1.9M | $1.5M | $283K | — | $2.9M |
| 2022 | $2.9M | $2.2M | $1.8M | $245K | — | $2.7M |
| 2021 | $3.3M | $2.6M | $2M | $238K | — | $2.1M |
| 2020 | $3.3M | $3.1M | $2.6M | $65K | — | $1.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $880K from 26 charities:
- Lotte and John Hecht Memorial Foundation$225K
- Weston Family Foundation$125K
- The Gwyn Morgan and Patricia Trottier Foundation$100K
- Hunter Family Foundation$100K
- The John Dobson Foundation$75K
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$65K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$47K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$40K
- The Dunkley Charitable Foundation$30K
- The George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation$30K
- Canadahelps Canadon$17K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$5,587
- Aqueduct Foundation$5,000
- The Morris and Beverly Baker Foundation$5,000
- The Victoria Foundation$3,000
- The BFMI Sesquicentennial Trust (2017)$2,000
- Nathan and Lily Silver Family Foundation$1,000
- Rheaume Family Foundation$1,000
- The Calgary Foundation$991
- Christian Stewardship Services$500
- The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act$500
- Vancity Community Foundation$452
- Link Charity Canada Inc$400
- BenefAction Foundation$360
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$100
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $300,000–349,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions7
- Total compensation, all staff$1M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Andrew Crooks (chair); Glenn Fox (director); Hugh Meighen (director); Will Johnston (director); Dwight Newman (director); Rachel Curran (director); Suzanne Anton (director); Joanna Baron (executive director); Tony Clement (director); Brad Dunkley (director); Julie DI Lorenzo (director); Russell Brown (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Canadian Constitution Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 866176654RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.