The Institute on Governance
Publicly funded institution · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 132056631RR0001 · Public Amenities · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($4,796,473) as filed with the CRA.
The Institute on Governance is a charitable organization based in Ottawa, Ontario, classified by the CRA under public amenities. 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 June 30, 2024, it reported $4.5M in revenue and $4.8M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 73% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $24.
Compared with 276 public-amenity institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 85% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $350,000 and over range. The charity reported 16 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
The iog explores develops and promotes the principales standards and practices which underlie good governance in the public sphere in canada and abroad. Iog programs build and facilitate learning networks and partnership to disseminate experience and best practices related to good governamce. The iog offers a range of learning events and undertakes policy elevant research provides advisory services and designs strategies to promote learning share ideas and debate issues. The iog also shares what it learns through the writing and free dissemination of publications and policy briefs.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.5M | $4.8M | $4.6M | — | — | $2M |
| 2023 | $5.1M | $4.9M | $4.6M | — | — | $2.3M |
| 2022 | $1.2M | $1.1M | $1.1M | — | — | $2.1M |
| 2021 | $5.2M | $4.1M | $3.9M | — | — | $1.7M |
| 2020 | $6.6M | $6.7M | $6.4M | — | — | $693K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $24 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $350,000 and over1 position
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9994 positions
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions16
- Total compensation, all staff$1.8M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Owen Charters (board member); Malcolm Brown (board member); Sarah Paquet (board member); Daryell Nowlan (board member); Cassidy Caron (board member); Catrina Tapley (board member); Salman Azam (board member); Janice Fischer (board member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Institute on Governance’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 132056631RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.