Institute for Change Leaders
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 763310679RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-04-30. Split of total expenditures ($409,212) as filed with the CRA.
Institute for Change Leaders is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under teaching institutions. 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 April 30, 2024, it reported $309K in revenue and $409K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
In 2024, 4 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $122K.
Compared with 1,540 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 25% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 3 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
Training social justice seekers to create the change that they seek using the Marshall Ganz community organizing model; empowering those who face precarious forms of labour oppression and other intersections to have the agency to speak towards bettering conditions for themselves and their communities. ICL partnered with many organizations to perform targeted organizing training for their groups. ICL worked with groups such as Fred Victor Ecosociety National Association of Federal Retirees Urban Alliance of Race Relations Hollyhock MOFIF OCASI Canadian Council of Muslim Women Newcomer…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2021–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $309K | $409K | $299K | $19K | — | $205K |
| 2023 | $460K | $748K | $614K | $57K | — | $305K |
| 2022 | $877K | $471K | $398K | $18K | — | $466K |
| 2021 | $223K | $188K | — | $2,109 | — | $57K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $122K from 4 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions3
- Total compensation, all staff$303K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Susan Kwong (secretary); Bob Gallagher (vice chair); Amanuel Melles (board chair); Judy Skinner (treasurer); Elizabeth Harvey (board member); Cindi Alexander (board member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Institute for Change Leaders’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 763310679RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.