Centre for Civic Engagement
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 873968176RR0001 · Teaching Institutions
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-09-30. Split of total expenditures ($878,084) as filed with the CRA.
Centre for Civic Engagement is a charitable organization 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 September 30, 2024, it reported $1.2M in revenue and $878K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 20% from donations, 58% from other charities. In 2024, 10 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $600K.
Compared with 1,247 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 67% of peers.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $8,181 in 2020 to $1.2M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
The Centre for Civic Engagement (CCE) funded the commissioning an extensive body of expert analysis on topics related to law global affairs economics trade technology the environment and culture. These documents were written by leading authorities in their respective fields including academics and scholars practitioners and area experts. The papers were published on website funded by the CCE and made available to the public free of charge. CCE also helped convene a series of public lectures on topics related to law global affairs economics trade technology the environment and cul…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.2M | $878K | $364K | — | $450K | $378K |
| 2023 | $1.1M | $1.2M | $1.1M | $23K | — | $98K |
| 2022 | $956K | $1.1M | $1.1M | — | — | $241K |
| 2021 | $1M | $646K | $606K | — | — | $396K |
| 2020 | $8,181 | $47K | $22K | — | $0 | $27K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $600K from 10 charities:
- Hunter Family Foundation$200K
- Hunter Family Foundation$125K
- Lotte and John Hecht Memorial Foundation$100K
- The John Dobson Foundation$75K
- Arrell Family Foundation$50K
- THE IRA GLUSKIN AND MAXINE GRANOVSKY GLUSKIN CHARITABLE FOUNdation$45K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$3,000
- The Charles and Rita Field-Marsham Foundation$1,000
- BenefAction Foundation$750
- My Charity Fund$241
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Zak Muscovitch (director); Malcolm Jolley (director); Deon Ramgoolam (director); Patrick Luciani (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Centre for Civic Engagement’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 873968176RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.