The Citizens' Foundation Canada
Publicly funded institution · Oakville, Ontario · BN 844142273RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($5,011,478) as filed with the CRA.
The Citizens' Foundation Canada is a charitable organization based in Oakville, Ontario, 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 $4.6M in revenue and $5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 85% from donations, 7% from other charities. In 2024, 24 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $722K.
Compared with 1,247 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 43% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (3 positions in that band). The charity reported 3 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
The foundation is principally engaged in establishing schools to promote education and maintaining/operating primary and secondary schools in pakistan. The foundation also provides bursaries to needy undergraduate students in canada.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.6M | $5M | $4.3M | $300K | — | $502K |
| 2023 | $4.7M | $5.4M | $4.8M | $273K | — | $934K |
| 2022 | $4.9M | $4.5M | $4M | $201K | — | $1.6M |
| 2021 | $4.1M | $3.1M | $2.9M | $54K | — | $1.2M |
| 2020 | $3.6M | $3.2M | $3M | $58K | — | $229K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $722K from 24 charities:
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$153K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$153K
- OBAT Canada$121K
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$65K
- The Bennett Family Foundation$50K
- Canadahelps Canadon$43K
- Canadahelps Canadon$43K
- Khan Family Foundation Inc.$32K
- United Way of Greater Toronto$18K
- Islamic Centre of Markham$10K
- GivingForce Foundation Canada$6,500
- The Ralph M. Barford Foundation$6,000
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$5,833
- Pirbhai Foundation$5,400
- N.a. Taylor Foundation$3,000
- E-Islam Center of the South Shore$3,000
- Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal$1,000
- Tahira & Iltihab Hassan Charitable Trust$1,000
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$1,000
- Doane Grant Thornton Foundation$750
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$550
- All Nations Full Gospel Church$275
- BenefAction Foundation$250
- United Way of Calgary and Area$99
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions3
- Total compensation, all staff$186K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Farhan Sadiq (president); Sajid Salman (director); Hyder Masum (director); Raeesa Dawood (director); Mansoor Naqi (director); Furqan Faruqi (treasurer); Syed Ayub2306324 (secretary); Sahar Gaya (director); Abdurrehman Muhammadi (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Citizens' Foundation Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 844142273RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.