Innocence Canada Foundation
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 855145462RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($979,388) as filed with the CRA.
Innocence Canada Foundation is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.4M in revenue and $979K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 85% from donations. In 2024, 14 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $328K.
Compared with 299 community-service charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 32% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 97% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 10 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $363K in 2020 to $1.4M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
Provide legal services to low-income persons in judicial proceedings in Canada to establish that a wrongful conviction has occurred and the wrongly convicted in exonerated. The Foundation provides financial assistance to those receiving legal services for accommodation food clothing and transportation. The Foundation seeks to educate the public on matters of criminal law and wrongful conviction through courses seminars events and meetings and publications.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.4M | $979K | $769K | $1,915 | — | $1.4M |
| 2023 | $873K | $786K | $597K | $4,110 | — | $1M |
| 2022 | $706K | $555K | $486K | — | — | $941K |
| 2021 | $749K | $380K | $351K | $3,841 | — | $791K |
| 2020 | $363K | $291K | $266K | $4,443 | — | $422K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $328K from 14 charities:
- Lindy Green Family Foundation$250K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$26K
- Aqueduct Foundation$20K
- Canadahelps Canadon$17K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$6,985
- GiftPact Foundation Inc.$5,000
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$1,312
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$579
- Gandy Charitable Foundation$500
- CN Employees' and Pensioners' Community Fund$394
- ST James' Anglican Church$200
- Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto$100
- BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust$100
- The Anglican Parish of Leeds Rear$100
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
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- $1–39,9996 positions
- Permanent full-time positions10
- Total compensation, all staff$701K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Stephen Gouge (director); Denis O'Connor (director); Brian Greenspan (director); Robert Lapper (director); Seymour Epstein (director); Jonathan Freedman (director); Debbie Oakley (director); Beverley McLaughlin (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Innocence Canada Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 855145462RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.