Indspire
Charitable organization · Ohsweken, Ontario · BN 118834696RR0001 · Arts · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($46,664,479) as filed with the CRA.
Indspire is a charitable organization based in Ohsweken, Ontario, classified by the CRA under arts. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $48.8M in revenue and $46.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 45% from donations, 38% from government, 10% from other charities. In 2024, 164 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $7.4M.
Compared with 39 arts charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 56% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 90% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $350,000 and over range. The charity reported 60 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $27.8M in 2020 to $48.8M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 14 names.
In its own words
Indspire is committed to improving the outcomes of indigenous education in canada through our innovative programs to students from k-12 through post-secondary education. Through its building brighter futures program since 1996 indspire has disbursed over $248 million through more than 75 000 scholarships and bursaries to indigenous students. The nationally televised annual indspire awards recognize outstanding indigenous achievers as inspirational role models for indigenous youth and celebrate the rich contributions that first nation inuit and metis people make to canada. The soaring:indig…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $48.8M | $46.7M | $39.3M | $3.1M | — | $43.9M |
| 2023 | $43.9M | $40.2M | $34.2M | $2.9M | — | $36.4M |
| 2022 | $34.8M | $33.3M | $28.6M | $2.3M | — | $33M |
| 2021 | $29M | $28.6M | $24.1M | $1.7M | — | $31.8M |
| 2020 | $27.8M | $28.4M | $24M | $1.7M | — | $25.8M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $7.4M from 164 charities:
- The Joyce Family Foundation$1M
- Northern Legacy Foundation$738K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$634K
- Suncor Energy Foundation/fondation Suncor Energie$500K
- Canadahelps Canadon$425K
- Canadahelps Canadon$425K
- Tachane Foundation Inc.$400K
- Rideau Hall Foundation$358K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$213K
- Barry and Laurie Green Family Charitable Trust$200K
- BenefAction Foundation$181K
- Aqueduct Foundation$161K
- The KPMG Foundation/la Fondation KPMG$140K
- TELUS Friendly Future Foundation$112K
- Barry and Laurie Green Family Charitable Trust$110K
- The Feiga Bresver Academic Fund$106K
- Toyota Canada Foundation/fondation Toyota Canada$87K
- The Governors of the University of Alberta$84K
- T-Gear Foundation$60K
- Canada Gives$54K
- TJX Canada Foundation$50K
- The Peter Gilgan Foundation$50K
- Externalitator Foundation$50K
- Turkstra Foundation$50K
- The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation$50K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $350,000 and over1 position
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9994 positions
- $120,000–159,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions60
- Total compensation, all staff$6M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jean Larose (director); Jean Teillet (vice-chair); Darrell Beaulieu (director); Madeleine Redfern (director); James Dekker (director); Elizabeth Zarpa (director); Fauna Kingdon (director); Yvan Larocque (director); Peter Lukasiewicz (director); Jo-Ann Archibald (director); Gordon Peeling (director); William (bill) Shead (director); Paul Tsaparis (director); Donald Worme (chair).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Indspire’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118834696RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.