Centre for the Study of Living Standards / Centre de l'Etude de Niveau de Vie
Publicly funded institution · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 896132578RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($511,399) as filed with the CRA.
Centre for the Study of Living Standards / Centre de l'Etude de Niveau de Vie is a charitable organization based in Ottawa, 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 March 31, 2024, it reported $567K in revenue and $511K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 7% from donations, 16% from government. In 2020, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $20K.
Compared with 1,540 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 59% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 3 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
The centre for the study of living standards (csls) in 2023-24 continued its on-going research program in the areas of productivity labour markets living standards economic well-being
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $567K | $511K | $460K | — | — | $243K |
| 2023 | $533K | $496K | $447K | — | — | $161K |
| 2022 | $394K | $433K | $390K | — | — | $163K |
| 2021 | $491K | $405K | $364K | — | — | $182K |
| 2020 | $517K | $504K | $454K | — | — | $50K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2020
Received $20K from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions3
- Total compensation, all staff$393K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Michael Horgan (chair); Richard Van Loon (treasurer); Lars Osberg (board member); Maureen O'Neil (board member); Jack Finlayson (board member); Helen Heslop (board member); Louis-Mark Ducharme (board member); Jean-Francois Perrault (board member); Michael Wernick (board member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Centre for the Study of Living Standards / Centre de l'Etude de Niveau de Vie’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 896132578RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.