Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights
Publicly funded institution · Montreal, Quebec · BN 123465775RR0001 · Teaching Institutions
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-05-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,606,939) as filed with the CRA.
Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights is a charitable organization based in Montreal, Quebec, 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 May 31, 2024, it reported $1.3M in revenue and $1.6M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 5% from donations, 88% from other charities. In 2024, 20 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $927K.
Compared with 1,247 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 2% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 12 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 16 names.
In its own words
Promote and protect international rights and humanitarian activities.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.3M | $1.6M | $123K | — | — | $1.9M |
| 2023 | $1.4M | $1.3M | $134K | — | — | $2.2M |
| 2022 | $1.2M | $992K | $88K | — | $76K | $2.1M |
| 2021 | $1.5M | $561K | — | — | — | $1.8M |
| 2020 | $1M | $484K | — | — | — | $846K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $927K from 20 charities:
- Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal$296K
- Honey & Barry Sherman Legacy Foundation$110K
- Jewish Federation of British Columbia$100K
- Fondation Familiale Gewurz/Gewurz Family Fondation$100K
- The Asper Foundation$80K
- Federation Cja$75K
- The CRB Foundation/La fondation CRB$50K
- Danbe Foundation Inc.$35K
- Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto$20K
- Shawna Goodman & Todd Sone Family Foundation$18K
- Barry and Laurie Green Family Charitable Trust$10K
- Wellington West Foundation Inc.$10K
- Canadian Race Relations Foundation$5,600
- The Sonshine Family Foundation$5,000
- Vancouver Foundation$5,000
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$3,600
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$2,361
- Canadahelps Canadon$864
- Mitzi & Mel Dobrin Family Foundation/fondation Familiale Mitzi & Mel Dobrin$500
- Toronto Foundation$305
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- $40,000–79,9996 positions
- $1–39,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions12
- Total compensation, all staff$1.2M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Irwin Cotler (director); Gordon Echenberg (director); Moses Gashirabake (director); David Grossman (director); Howard Liebman (director); Joseph Nuss (director); Louise Otis (director); Jay Rosenzweig (director); Lilian Vineberg-Goodman (director); Michael Bloomfield (director); Eloge Butera (director); Heather Fenyes (director); Jean-Francois Gaudreault-Desbiens (director); Jodi Kovitz (director); Murray Rankin (director); Cheryl Stein (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 123465775RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.