Canadian Foundation for Governance Research (cfgr) Fondation Canadienne de Recherche sur la Gouvernance (fcrg)
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 876118100RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($249,714) as filed with the CRA.
Canadian Foundation for Governance Research (cfgr) Fondation Canadienne de Recherche sur la Gouvernance (fcrg) is a public foundation based in Toronto, 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 June 30, 2024, it reported $371K in revenue and $250K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 40% from donations. In 2024, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $125K.
Compared with 1,540 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 44% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 3 qualified donees totalling $60K in 2024, the largest being $30K to The University of British Columbia. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $72K in 2020 to $371K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
The foundation undertakes and supports empirical research on corporate governance issues through canadian perspective creating new knowledge of practical interest for canadian directors and boards of canadian companies. It provides scholarships to support corporate governance through the bertram scholarships and other activities.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $371K | $250K | $720 | — | $210K | $2.8M |
| 2023 | $455K | $271K | $1,095 | — | $225K | $2.7M |
| 2022 | $360K | $235K | $155K | — | $60K | $2.5M |
| 2021 | $490K | $73K | $3,131 | — | $60K | $2.4M |
| 2020 | $72K | $207K | $905 | — | $185K | $2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $60K to 3 qualified donees:
Received $125K from 2 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Robert Bertram (chair); Rahul Bhardwaj (director); Steven Glover (director); Carol Liao (director); Melissa Sonberg (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Canadian Foundation for Governance Research (cfgr) Fondation Canadienne de Recherche sur la Gouvernance (fcrg)’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 876118100RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.