The Royal Canadian Geographical Society
Charitable organization · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 108096371RR0001 · Support of Schools and Education
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($7,055,350) as filed with the CRA.
The Royal Canadian Geographical Society is a charitable organization based in Ottawa, Ontario, classified by the CRA under support of schools and education. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $6M in revenue and $7.1M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 48% from donations, 15% from government. In 2024, 40 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.6M.
Compared with 632 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 19% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $300,000–349,999 range. The charity reported 9 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 13 names.
In its own words
Publication of bi-monthly magazine. Public lectures held across canada. A program of grants and aid designed to encourage and stimulate geographics among secondary college and university teachers. An annual geography contest is organized for high school students across canada.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $6M | $7.1M | $3.6M | $710K | $1.1M | $1.6M |
| 2023 | $3.3M | $3.4M | $2.1M | $550K | $746K | -$1.4M |
| 2022 | $3.9M | $5.4M | $3.5M | $163K | — | -$529K |
| 2021 | $5.8M | $3.6M | $2.4M | $122K | — | $2.1M |
| 2020 | $4.5M | $4.1M | $3.1M | $448K | — | $1.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $1.6M from 40 charities:
- RBC Foundation$428K
- Swim Drink Fish Canada$165K
- The Minto Greenberg Legacy Foundation$159K
- The Westaway Charitable Foundation$100K
- The Catherine and Fredrik Eaton Charitable Foundation$100K
- R. Howard Webster Foundation$80K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$60K
- Koerner Foundation$50K
- The Auxilium Foundation$50K
- The Auxilium Foundation$50K
- Canada Gives$35K
- Mitchell Legacy Foundation$30K
- MacLellan Charitable Trust$25K
- Externalitator Foundation$25K
- Toronto Foundation$25K
- Burgundy Legacy Foundation$25K
- The Birch Island Foundation$25K
- Turnbull Family Community Building Foundation$23K
- Weston Family Foundation$20K
- The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act$16K
- T.R. Meighen Family Foundation/Fondation de la Famille T.R. Meighen$15K
- UHN Foundation$13K
- Aqueduct Foundation$13K
- Canadahelps Canadon$10K
- TD Friends of the Environment Foundation$9,551
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $300,000–349,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- $1–39,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions9
- Total compensation, all staff$1.2M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jim Carter (treasurer); Gavin Fitch (past president); Joseph Frey (vice president); Mark Gallop (governor); LT.-Col Carl Gauthier (secretary); Nellie Kusugak (member); Akaash Maharaj (member); Christopher McCreery (governor); The Hon. Lois Mitchell (president); Antoine Normandin (governor); Janis Peleshok (member); Zac Robinson (member); Connie Wyatt Anderson (vice-president).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Royal Canadian Geographical Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 108096371RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.