Institute for Rural Education and Development
Publicly funded institution · Calgary, Alberta · BN 857782718RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($160,820) as filed with the CRA.
Institute for Rural Education and Development is a charitable organization based in Calgary, Alberta, 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 December 31, 2024, it reported $197K in revenue and $161K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 56% from donations, 40% from other charities. In 2024, 4 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $7,171.
Compared with 1,540 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 11% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. None of its ten highest-paid positions cleared $40,000. The charity reported 5 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $597K in 2020 to $197K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
1. Build early childhood development ('ecd') centres in rural poor areas of uganda; oversee ecd centres and programs in nw pakistan 2. Develop ecd cirruculum 3. Train and qualify teachers to deliver ecd 4. Encourage children's enrolment in ecd by educating parents on the long-term social and scholastic benefits 5. Establish iread ecd centre school management committees and encourage and guide their efforts to employ teachers repair and maintain the schools and offer support to the students such as lunch programs and uniforms iread is led and run by volunteers in canada uganda and pa…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $197K | $161K | $91K | — | — | $462K |
| 2023 | $272K | $550K | $135K | — | $281K | $425K |
| 2022 | $462K | $318K | $189K | — | — | $703K |
| 2021 | $475K | $342K | $236K | — | — | $559K |
| 2020 | $597K | $444K | $344K | — | — | $427K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $7,171 from 4 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $1–39,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions5
- Total compensation, all staff$39K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2023)
Malik Hemani (director); Nooralli Jaffer (director/past chairman); Zahir Lavji (director/chairman); Yuonusu Musoke (treasurer/director); Nazim Shivj (director); Rita Yembilah (vice chair/director).
As listed on its 2023 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Institute for Rural Education and Development’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 857782718RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.