Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami
Publicly funded institution · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 118971233RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($25,713,126) as filed with the CRA.
Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami is a charitable organization based in Ottawa, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. 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 $26.9M in revenue and $25.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 86% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 16 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $51.1M.
Compared with 427 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 71% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $300,000–349,999 range. The charity reported 66 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $17.4M in 2020 to $26.9M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
The organization's purpose is to act as a national organizationm to represent and promote the interests of 60 000 inuit living in canada on a wide variety of issues vital to the preservation of the inuit identity culture and way of life.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $26.9M | $25.7M | $24.4M | — | — | $3.5M |
| 2023 | $26.1M | $25.4M | $24.1M | — | — | $2.3M |
| 2022 | $19.8M | $19.6M | $18.6M | — | — | $1.6M |
| 2021 | $14.2M | $14.2M | $13.4M | — | — | $1.4M |
| 2020 | $17.4M | $17.2M | $1.6M | — | — | $1.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $51.1M from 16 charities:
- Mastercard Foundation$51M
- The Counselling Foundation of Canada$35K
- CJ Foundation$10K
- The Langar Foundation$5,000
- Canadahelps Canadon$4,202
- Saskatchewan Community Foundation Corp.$4,168
- BenefAction Foundation$4,000
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$1,278
- Toronto Foundation$1,000
- Saskatchewan Community Foundation Corp.$500
- Fonds pour la démocratie Matthew R. Scanlan Democracy Fund$300
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$200
- United Way of Newfoundland and Labrador Inc.$80
- The Burton Charitable Foundation$50
- United Way British Columbia$43
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation-$569
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $300,000–349,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9994 positions
- $80,000–119,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions66
- Total compensation, all staff$7.8M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Natan Obed (president); Lisa Koperqualuk (vice-president); Aluki Kotierk (director); Johannes Lampe (director); Duane Smith (director); Pita Aatami (secretary-treasurer); Nancy Wtok (director); Susie-Ann Kudluk (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118971233RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.