Institute for Canadian Citizenship
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 823034145RR0001 · Support of Schools and Education · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($5,398,989) as filed with the CRA.
Institute for Canadian Citizenship is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under support of schools and education. It appears on the charity register the way hospitals, universities, and other publicly funded bodies do — to issue tax receipts — rather than as a donation-driven charity in the usual sense. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $6.1M in revenue and $5.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 6% from donations, 62% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 20 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $536K.
Compared with 1,247 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 34% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 83% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $250,000–299,999 range. The charity reported 35 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $3M in 2020 to $6.1M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
Icc hosts citizenship ceremonies across canada. These community ceremonies celebrate canada's newest citizens and offer unique opportunities for them and members of their communities to reflect on what canadian citizenship means. Canoo is a mobile app that provides new canadian citizens and permanent residents free admission to over 1400 of canada's best culture and nature attractions as well as volunteering opportunities premium access to special events and other valuable benefits to help them feel at home in canada. Conoo is available for free on the apple store and googlee play store. T…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $6.1M | $5.4M | $4.5M | $316K | — | $1.3M |
| 2023 | $3.8M | $3.7M | $3M | $116K | — | $612K |
| 2022 | $2.6M | $2.6M | $2.2M | $100K | — | $498K |
| 2021 | $2.8M | $2.9M | $2.4M | — | — | $487K |
| 2020 | $3M | $4M | $3.5M | $168K | — | $540K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $536K from 20 charities:
- United Way of Greater Toronto$100K
- The George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation$100K
- Srinarayanathas Foundation$50K
- Butterfield Family Foundation$50K
- Mitchell Legacy Foundation$33K
- Toronto Foundation$30K
- Burgundy Legacy Foundation$30K
- The Calgary Foundation$25K
- The Birks Family Foundation$25K
- Judy and Wilmot Matthews Foundation$20K
- Kim Family Foundation$20K
- M. Bonham Charitable Foundation$10K
- Bay Tree Foundation$10K
- Canadahelps Canadon$8,152
- Aqueduct Foundation$6,000
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$5,000
- United Way of Calgary and Area$5,000
- The McLean Foundation$5,000
- The Max Clarkson Family Foundation$2,500
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$870
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
- $120,000–159,9993 positions
- $80,000–119,9995 positions
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions35
- Total compensation, all staff$2.7M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Irfhan Rawji (chair); Khalil Shariff (treasurer); Martin Katz (secretary); Zai Mamdani (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Institute for Canadian Citizenship’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 823034145RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.