Human Rights Watch Canada
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 836252544RR0001 · Educational Organizations Not Elsewhere Categorized
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($3,184,335) as filed with the CRA.
Human Rights Watch Canada is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under educational organizations not elsewhere categorized. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $3.2M in revenue and $3.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 82% from donations, 5% from other charities. In 2024, 29 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $663K.
Compared with 632 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 35% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 4 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.6M in 2020 to $3.2M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
Human rights watch canada'a programs focus on critical human rughts concerns both in canada and globally. Key initiatives includ the toronto human rights watch film festival using storytelling through film to spotlight pressing issues and the voices for justice dinner honouring human rights defenders. Human rights watch canada's staff and researchers actively engage with canadian decision-makers across government and other sectors driving advocacy to address critical human rights concerns. Programmatic work during the year covered a range of human rights issues in canada and worldwide a…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.2M | $3.2M | $2.5M | $382K | — | $2.5M |
| 2023 | $1.2M | $1.3M | $955K | $103K | — | $2.5M |
| 2022 | $2.5M | $2.9M | $2.6M | $102K | — | $2.6M |
| 2021 | $5.8M | $3M | $2.7M | $120K | — | $3M |
| 2020 | $1.6M | $1.9M | $1.8M | $30K | — | $1.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $663K from 29 charities:
- The Samuel Family Foundation$250K
- Belonging Forum$150K
- Lynwood Family Foundation$48K
- Susan and Gregory Guichon Foundation$30K
- United Way of Greater Toronto$25K
- Airlie Foundation$15K
- The J W McConnell Family Foundation$15K
- Canadahelps Canadon$15K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$14K
- The Sapna Family Foundation$12K
- The Joan and Clifford Hatch Foundation$12K
- Toronto Foundation$12K
- The Langar Foundation$10K
- Aqueduct Foundation$7,920
- The Norman and Margaret Jewison Charitable Foundation$7,000
- The Gordon and Lorraine Gibson Family Foundation$5,000
- The Barber Family Charitable Foundation$5,000
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$5,000
- The Cole foundation/La Fondation Cole$5,000
- The Henry White Kinnear Foundation$5,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$3,452
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$3,386
- The Murray Frum Foundation$2,500
- Howick Foundation /fondation Howick$2,000
- The Shen Family Charitable Foundation$2,000
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
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions4
- Total compensation, all staff$476K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Ahmad Attia (director); Norman Collinson (chair); Marusya Lazo (chief financial officer); Maryse Roy (treasurer); Bruce Simpson (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Human Rights Watch Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 836252544RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.