Equitas - International Centre for Human Rights Education / Equitas - Centre International d'Education aux Droits Humains
Publicly funded institution · Montreal, Quebec · BN 118833292RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($8,929,088) as filed with the CRA.
Equitas - International Centre for Human Rights Education / Equitas - Centre International d'Education aux Droits Humains is a charitable organization based in Montreal, Quebec, 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 $9M in revenue and $8.9M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 79% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 13 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $667K.
Compared with 829 community-service institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 44% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 46 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $5.2M in 2020 to $9M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
Advancing equality through human rights education programs in canada haiti tanzania senegal kenya burkina faso - 2019-2024 canadian equality and inclusion fund (actif) 2020-2027 and hr program in middle east and north africa. 2022-2024 connecting children creating belonging in canadian communities building inclusive vancouver communities: increasing the capacity of social service providers through human rights education
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $9M | $8.9M | $7.8M | $11K | — | $490K |
| 2023 | $8.2M | $8.2M | $6.7M | $27K | $488K | $420K |
| 2022 | $6.6M | $6.6M | $5.6M | $16K | — | $365K |
| 2021 | $5.5M | $5.4M | $4.7M | $17K | — | $350K |
| 2020 | $5.2M | $5.1M | $4.4M | $24K | — | $338K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $667K from 13 charities:
- Mastercard Foundation$300K
- RBC Foundation$200K
- The Azrieli Foundation$40K
- Canadian Race Relations Foundation$38K
- The Winnipeg Foundation$30K
- Walter and Duncan Gordon Charitable Foundation$20K
- The Foundation of Greater Montreal$13K
- Canadian Race Relations Foundation$12K
- Brian Bronfman family foundation/ Fondation de la famille Brian Bronfman$10K
- Canadahelps Canadon$3,148
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$604
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$120
- Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal$36
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9996 positions
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions46
- Total compensation, all staff$4.4M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Erin Alyward (board member); André Beaulieu (chair of the board); Arpil Ingham (board member); Inez Jabalpurwala (secretary of the board); Lisa Schmidt (board member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Equitas - International Centre for Human Rights Education / Equitas - Centre International d'Education aux Droits Humains’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118833292RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.