Canadian Institute for Advanced Legal Studies
Public foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 100766427RR0001 · Foundations Advancing Education · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-09-30. Split of total expenditures ($716,163) as filed with the CRA.
Canadian Institute for Advanced Legal Studies is a public foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations advancing education. In its fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, it reported $1.3M in revenue and $716K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 20% from government.
Compared with 632 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 42% of peers.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $2,801 in 2020 to $1.3M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 22 names.
In its own words
The canadian institute for advanced legal studies provides lawyers and judges the opportunity to attend lectures and engage in discussions beyond the scope of their daily work. The institute operates a series of lecture in the english language at queen's college cambridge uk every two years and a similar set of lecturesin strasbourg france. In addition to the lecture series the institute provides scholarships in the names of the right honourable paul martin senior and paul-andre crepeau. Students receive scholarships to study in the university of cambridge master of laws program or to stud…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.3M | $716K | $586K | — | — | $5.7M |
| 2023 | $1.1M | $838K | $712K | — | — | $5.1M |
| 2022 | -$56K | $206K | $127K | — | — | $4.9M |
| 2021 | $665K | $211K | — | — | — | $5.1M |
| 2020 | $2,801 | $217K | — | — | — | $4.7M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Robert Armstrong (director/honourary president); Pierre Bienvenu (director); Nadia Effendi (director); Jacques Fournier (director); Brian Gover (director); Bradley Green (director); Claire Hunter (director); Patricia Jackson (director); Nicholas Kasirer (director); Robert Leurer (director); Lise Maisonneuve (director); Benoit Moore (director); Ira Nishisato (director); Guy Pratte (director); William Ryan (director); Robert Sharpe (director); Randall Hofley (vice president and treasurer); Ira Nishisato (vice president); Guy Pratte (chair and president); Robert Sharpe (honourary president); Anne Thomas (president and secretary); Renee Maria Tremblay (vice president).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Canadian Institute for Advanced Legal Studies’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 100766427RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.