Cuso International
Publicly funded institution · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 811116813RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($28,059,977) as filed with the CRA.
Cuso International is a charitable organization based in Ottawa, Ontario, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. 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 $25.6M in revenue and $28.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 8% from donations, 63% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 47 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $202K.
Compared with 115 community-service institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 12% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 119 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 15 names.
In its own words
Cuso International is a Canadian not-for-profit international cooperation and development organization that works to create economic and social opportunities for marginalized groups in Africa Latin America the Caribbean and Canada. Together with its partners civil society organizations governments multilateral agencies and the private sector Cuso focuses on efforts to advance gender equality and social inclusion improve economic resilience and deliver progress on climate action. Since 1961 the organization has mobilized thousands of skilled volunteers who work alongside partners to max…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $25.6M | $28.1M | $22.8M | $1.8M | — | $9.5M |
| 2023 | $31.5M | $32M | $26.7M | $1.6M | — | $11.9M |
| 2022 | $31.7M | $24.6M | $19.6M | $1.5M | — | $12.4M |
| 2021 | $18M | $17.9M | $14.7M | $1.5M | — | $0 |
| 2020 | $37.7M | $37.6M | $33.5M | $1.5M | — | $5.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $202K from 47 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$50K
- Canadahelps Canadon$50K
- Bernhard Melitz Foundation$12K
- BenefAction Foundation$11K
- Manitoba Council for International CO-Operation Inc.$10K
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$8,000
- The Scott Island Foundation$7,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$6,040
- Gore Mutual Insurance Company Foundation$6,000
- Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph in Canada$5,000
- The United Church of Canada Foundation$5,000
- Aqueduct Foundation$4,700
- Fondation Denise et Robert Gibelleau$3,868
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$3,000
- Fondation Edward Assh$2,000
- The Calgary Foundation$1,614
- The Weld Foundation$1,525
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$1,473
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$1,458
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$1,185
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,000
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$1,000
- The Joan and Regis Duffy Foundation$1,000
- The Tom and Ruth Kritsch Family Foundation$1,000
- University of Saskatchewan (employees Charitable Donations Plan)$885
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
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9993 positions
- $80,000–119,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions119
- Total compensation, all staff$9.6M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Darrell Gregersen (vice-chair); Grant Curtis (director); Jeff Cates (director); Lori Spadorcia (director); Lucie Edwards (chair); Rosemary McCarney (director); Sharon Folkes-Abrahams (director); Rob Turpin (treasurer); Wayne Robertson (director); Zahra Esmail (director); Gabriela Polanco Sorto (director); Alejandro Terrones (director); Robert McGuire (director); Christian Paradis (director); Denise Amyot (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Cuso International’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 811116813RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.