CARE Canada
Publicly funded institution · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 118838333RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($74,012,695) as filed with the CRA.
CARE Canada is a charitable organization based in Ottawa, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. 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 $73.2M in revenue and $74M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 5% from donations, 85% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 93 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $13.4M.
Compared with 427 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 28% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $300,000–349,999 range. The charity reported 104 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 2 qualified donees totalling $28K in 2024, the largest being $24K to Humanitarian Coalition / Coalition Humanitaire. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 13 names.
In its own words
Care canada is a member of care international and international development and humanitarian organization which reaches communities in over 100 countries working to defend dignity and fight poverty by empowering women and girls. The needs and agency of women and girls are at the center of everything we do. Care's work helps unlock women's leadership for a gender- just future by driving key investments in women's safety health and dignified livelihoods. To achieve this we facilitate the implementation of programs in dozens of countries annually in a variety of sectors. Our approaches to a…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $73.2M | $74M | $64.9M | $1.2M | $28K | $8.1M |
| 2023 | $61.4M | $60.6M | $52.8M | $1.2M | $35K | $7.2M |
| 2022 | $57.3M | $56.7M | $49M | $958K | $55K | $6.3M |
| 2021 | $82.3M | $82.2M | $75.1M | $1.2M | $47K | $5.8M |
| 2020 | $99.8M | $100.1M | $92.6M | $1.2M | $81K | $5.8M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $28K to 2 qualified donees:
Received $13.4M from 93 charities:
- Mastercard Foundation$8.4M
- Humanitarian Coalition / Coalition Humanitaire$1.7M
- World Vision Canada$1.2M
- Pathy Family Foundation$550K
- The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act$156K
- The Peter Gilgan Foundation$150K
- Canadahelps Canadon$149K
- Canadahelps Canadon$149K
- Vancouver Foundation$108K
- The Flanagan Foundation$75K
- TSADIK Canada$73K
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Canada$57K
- Alan and Gwendoline Pyatt Foundation$50K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$36K
- The H. John McDonald Foundation$35K
- Aqueduct Foundation$35K
- The Calgary Foundation$34K
- Manitoba Council for International CO-Operation Inc.$27K
- The Bill and Jean Somerville Foundation$25K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$22K
- The Murray R. O'Neil Charitable Foundation$20K
- Clarus Foundation$20K
- Cut Foundation$20K
- Betty Lou Cowper Charitable Trust$19K
- Trust Under the Will of Alice E. Macinnes$19K
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
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9995 positions
- $120,000–159,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions104
- Total compensation, all staff$28.3M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Amy Jarek (board of director member); Cindy Karugia (board of director member); Michael Kontak (board of director member); Michael McLaughlin (board of director member); Sarosh Nanavati (board of director member); Susan Maclaurin (chair); Victoria Lee (board of director member); Lisa De Wilde (vice chair); Salima Ebrahim (board of director member); Eliza Casinather (board of director member); Marie Lynne Desrochers (board of director member); Martha Harrison (board of director member); Feisal Hussai (board of director member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from CARE Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118838333RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.