Friends of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights Inc.
Public foundation · Winnipeg, Manitoba · BN 855114732RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,491,198) as filed with the CRA.
Friends of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights Inc. is a public foundation based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $4M in revenue and $1.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 44% from donations, 26% from government, 15% from other charities. In 2024, 28 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $687K.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 2% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 5 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 2 qualified donees totalling $232K in 2024, the largest being $230K to Canadian Museum for Human Rights. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
Fundraising for the Development Programs and Promotion of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4M | $1.5M | — | $613K | $320K | $8.9M |
| 2023 | $3M | $1.9M | — | $554K | $738K | $5.1M |
| 2022 | $2.8M | $1.7M | — | $542K | $658K | $5.4M |
| 2021 | $2.1M | $1.1M | — | $478K | $190K | $4.5M |
| 2020 | $2.8M | $1.8M | — | $747K | $364K | $580K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $232K to 2 qualified donees:
- Canadian Museum for Human Rights$230K
- The Winnipeg Foundation$1,783
Received $687K from 28 charities:
- RBC Foundation$100K
- John & Bonnie Buhler Foundation Inc.$100K
- Canadahelps Canadon$66K
- Canadahelps Canadon$66K
- The Winnipeg Foundation$61K
- Larry And Judy Tanenbaum Family Foundation$50K
- Temerty Foundation$50K
- Entwistle Family Foundation$50K
- The Jewish Foundation of Manitoba$30K
- WCPD Foundation$30K
- Mahon Family Foundation Inc.$25K
- The Gerald Schwartz & Heather Reisman Foundation$10K
- The CRB Foundation/La fondation CRB$10K
- The Jewish Foundation of Manitoba$8,957
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$5,710
- Calgary Flames Foundation$5,000
- Zorianna and Eugene Hyworon Foundation Inc.$5,000
- GiftPact Foundation Inc.$3,500
- Nathan and Lily Silver Family Foundation$2,500
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$2,250
- Canadian Foundation for Physically Disabled Persons$2,000
- United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes$1,200
- Lohn Foundation$1,000
- The Victoria Foundation$1,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$315
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions5
- Total compensation, all staff$520K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Arni Thorsteinson (director (past chair)); Gail Asper (director); Vim Kochhar (director); Howard Morry (director); Alex Robinson (director); M. Ann McCaig (director); Anupam Kothari (director & treasurer); Lisa Pankratz (director); David Angus (chair); John MacAulay (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Friends of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights Inc.’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 855114732RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.