John Humphrey Centre for Peace and Human Rights
Publicly funded institution · Edmonton, Alberta · BN 868703679RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,945,883) as filed with the CRA.
John Humphrey Centre for Peace and Human Rights is a charitable organization based in Edmonton, 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 $1.8M in revenue and $1.9M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 42% from government, 54% from other charities. In 2024, 13 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $847K.
Compared with 1,247 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 22% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 18 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $792K in 2020 to $1.8M in 2024.
In its own words
Engage children and young people in peace-building and human rights education. Foster adult learning and build community collaboration through education and dialogue on peace and human rights. Work with government businesses and organizations to strengthen their application of a human rights lens. Stride Advocacy - Since 2017 Stride Advocacy has supported community human rights issues. JHC has been a place of last resort for many over the years and Stride evolved as an effort to ensure we don’t just 'refer' people and ensure they are connected to what they need to move forward. The John Hum…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.8M | $1.9M | $1.6M | — | — | $0 |
| 2023 | $2M | $1.9M | $918K | $1,000 | — | $186K |
| 2022 | $1.6M | $1.6M | $718K | $1,000 | — | $87K |
| 2021 | $1.5M | $1.5M | $718K | $1,000 | $0 | $0 |
| 2020 | $792K | $751K | $552K | $5,000 | — | $70K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $847K from 13 charities:
- The National Sixties Scoop Healing Foundation of Canada$243K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$201K
- The J W McConnell Family Foundation$175K
- Canadahelps Canadon$76K
- Canadahelps Canadon$76K
- The Catherine Donnelly Foundation$27K
- Canadian Race Relations Foundation$16K
- TELUS Friendly Future Foundation$10K
- Johansen-Larsen Foundation$10K
- Edmonton Interfaith Centre for Education and Action Society$5,000
- The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act$4,302
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$3,034
- Right To Food$500
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9994 positions
- $1–39,99912 positions
- Permanent full-time positions18
- Total compensation, all staff$695K
Schedule 3 of its 2021 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from John Humphrey Centre for Peace and Human Rights’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 868703679RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.