Canadian Physicians for Aid and Relief
Charitable organization · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 118835230RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,319,084) as filed with the CRA.
Canadian Physicians for Aid and Relief is a charitable organization based in Ottawa, Ontario, classified by the CRA under core health care. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $2.4M in revenue and $2.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 19% from donations, 49% from government, 27% from other charities. In 2024, 21 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $318K.
Compared with 453 health charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 58% of peers. None of its ten highest-paid positions cleared $40,000. The charity reported 38 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.2M in 2020 to $2.4M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
Cpar has made a commitment to long-term change in africa. Founded in 1984 in response to the famine in ethiopia canadian physicians for aid and relief (cpar) is a non-profit organization working in partnership with vulnerable and diverse populations to overcome poverty and build healthy communities in africa. Cpar has field offices and programs in ethiopia malawi and tanzania. Cpar supports programming that: improves health systems capacity; and addresses the determinants of health that impact the well-being of the communities in which we are working. Cpar employs a community-centered devel…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.4M | $2.3M | $1.9M | $186K | — | $300K |
| 2023 | $1.8M | $2.2M | $1.8M | $147K | — | $216K |
| 2022 | $1.8M | $1.9M | $1.4M | $206K | — | $615K |
| 2021 | $1.9M | $1.6M | $1.3M | $128K | — | $729K |
| 2020 | $1.2M | $1.8M | $889K | $287K | — | $697K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $318K from 21 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$78K
- Canadahelps Canadon$78K
- The Peter Gilgan Foundation$50K
- Manitoba Council for International CO-Operation Inc.$34K
- The Calgary Foundation$31K
- Unifor Social Justice Fund/Le fonds de justice sociale d'Unifor$25K
- The Bulmash-Siegel Private Foundation$7,000
- Burgundy Legacy Foundation$5,000
- The John Brouwer Foundation$2,000
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$2,000
- Vancouver Foundation$1,382
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$1,368
- Howick Foundation /fondation Howick$1,000
- Vancity Community Foundation$1,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$780
- Vancity Community Foundation$500
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$300
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$290
- Canadian Medical Foundation$218
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$150
- United Way of Saskatoon and Area$27
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $1–39,99910 positions
- Permanent full-time positions38
- Total compensation, all staff$452K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Judith Dyck (chair); Graeme McKillop (vice chair); George Limbika Vilili (member); Susan Williams (member); Claire Huxtable (treasurer); Sam Appavoo (member); Kim Cook (member); Avnish Mehta (member); Paul Mkandawire (member); Trish Paton (member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Canadian Physicians for Aid and Relief’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118835230RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.