Historica Canada
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 885434720RR0001 · Research · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($4,956,995) as filed with the CRA.
Historica Canada is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under research. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $5.8M in revenue and $5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 22% from donations, 48% from government, 10% from other charities. In 2024, 25 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $852K.
Compared with 632 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 16% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 79% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $250,000–299,999 range. The charity reported 21 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $12M in 2020 to $5.8M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 21 names.
In its own words
Historica canada is the country's largest organization dedicated to enhancing awareness of canadian history and citizenship. Our programs all offered bilingually reach more than eight million canadians annually. The product of a 2009 merger between the historica foundation of canada and the dominion institute our goal is to bring history to life with rich and compelling stories of national interest. Some of our programs include the memory project which invites veterans and canadian forces members to share their military experience through an online archive and speakers bureau; heritage min…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $5.8M | $5M | $3.2M | $708K | — | $10M |
| 2023 | $5.3M | $5M | $2.7M | $693K | — | $9.2M |
| 2022 | $10.1M | $5.7M | $3.1M | $848K | — | $8.9M |
| 2021 | $7.7M | $7.5M | $4.8M | $817K | — | $4.4M |
| 2020 | $12M | $11.6M | $8.8M | $1.1M | $292 | $4.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $852K from 25 charities:
- The Heritage Project/reflets du Patrimoine$616K
- Canadahelps Canadon$83K
- Canadahelps Canadon$83K
- The Bennett Family Foundation$25K
- UHN Foundation$10K
- Canadian Race Relations Foundation$8,000
- BenefAction Foundation$5,000
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$5,000
- Burgundy Legacy Foundation$5,000
- Conam Charitable Foundation$4,000
- United Way of Greater Toronto$1,638
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$1,260
- The CRB Foundation/La fondation CRB$700
- Clergy Support Memorial Church$600
- The Macdonald Griffin Charitable Foundation$550
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$510
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$425
- Religieuses de Notre Dame du Sacre Coeur$400
- Religieuses de Notre Dame du Sacre Coeur$390
- Religieuses de Notre Dame du Sacre Coeur$390
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$250
- The Barbara and Harvey Wolfe Family Charitable Foundation$200
- BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust$75
- United Way Golden Horseshoe$40
- The Generalate of the Sisters of the Precious Blood$40
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $250,000–299,9991 position
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9992 positions
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions21
- Total compensation, all staff$2.4M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Stephen Smith (chair); Eric Maldoff (director); Charles Bronfman (director); Michael Chong (director); Jean Charest (director); Yves Fortier (director); Anne Dadson (director); Myra Freeman (director); Daniel Woolf (director); Naheed Nenshi (director); Rick Mercer (director); Trina McQueen (director); Beverley McLachlin (director); Arni Thorsteinson (director); Lynton Wilson (director); Gary Doer (director); David Johnston (director); Peter Mansbridge (director); Jeffrey Orridge (director); James Leech (director); Judith Moses (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Historica Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 885434720RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.