Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms
Charitable organization · Calgary, Alberta · BN 817174865RR0001 · Upholding Human Rights · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($4,809,831) as filed with the CRA.
Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms is a charitable organization based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under upholding human rights. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $5.3M in revenue and $4.8M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 96% from donations. In 2024, 72 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.6M.
Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 8 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 2 qualified donees totalling $2.3M in 2024, the largest being $2.3M to Charter Advocates Canada. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $2.6M in 2020 to $5.3M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
Educating the public about human rights and constitutional freedoms; funding legal assistance to defend the human rights and constitutional freedoms of canadians when their rights and freedoms have been threatened
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $5.3M | $4.8M | $1.8M | $250K | $2.4M | $2M |
| 2023 | $5.8M | $6M | $5.5M | — | — | $1.5M |
| 2022 | $7.1M | $9.3M | $7.7M | $711K | — | -$3.1M |
| 2021 | $6.5M | $4.1M | $3.3M | $510K | — | $4.1M |
| 2020 | $2.6M | $2.1M | $1.7M | $239K | — | $1.7M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $2.3M to 2 qualified donees:
Received $1.6M from 72 charities:
- The Hearn Family Foundation$300K
- The Calgary Foundation$158K
- Deo Gratias Foundation$100K
- The Gwyn Morgan and Patricia Trottier Foundation$75K
- Cidel Foundation$65K
- Canadahelps Canadon$64K
- Canadahelps Canadon$64K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$61K
- BenefAction Foundation$56K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$53K
- Hunter Family Foundation$50K
- Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto$45K
- Kenny Family Foundation Inc.$45K
- Ypma Family Foundation$40K
- Lamb Foundation$40K
- Free Reformed Church of Dundas$39K
- Canadian National Christian Foundation$33K
- The Highbury Foundation$25K
- Lamb Foundation$25K
- Marta and Owen Boris Foundation$24K
- Abundance Canada$23K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$23K
- Lagniappe Foundation$15K
- Aqueduct Foundation$15K
- Free Reformed Church of Chilliwack B.C.$15K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9995 positions
- $40,000–79,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions8
- Total compensation, all staff$1M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
John Carpay (president); Peter Stock (chairman); Dan Wiebe (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 817174865RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.