United Nations Association in Canada
Publicly funded institution · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 119276855RR0001 · Educational Organizations Not Elsewhere Categorized · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,039,493) as filed with the CRA.
United Nations Association in Canada is a charitable organization based in Ottawa, Ontario, classified by the CRA under educational organizations not elsewhere categorized. 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 $3M in revenue and $3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 9% from donations, 62% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 24 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $795K.
Compared with 1,247 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 42% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 83% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 10 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 3 qualified donees totalling $37K in 2024, the largest being $28K to United Nations Relief and Works Agency. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
United Nations Association in Canada engages citizens and decision makers at every level of Canadian society. It invests across generations bringing empathy-based educational resources and opportunities on health citizen education diversity peace equality human rights Sustainable development goals and the environment to both the best and the brightest and to most marginalized youth within Canada and the world's poorest countries.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3M | $3M | $2.6M | $241K | $37K | $164K |
| 2023 | $3.9M | $4M | $3.6M | $127K | $6,706 | $228K |
| 2022 | $7.7M | $7.5M | $7M | $201K | $88K | $312K |
| 2021 | $4.8M | $5M | $4.5M | $62K | $90K | $82K |
| 2020 | $3.9M | $3.9M | $3.3M | $23K | $0 | $300K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $37K to 3 qualified donees:
- United Nations Relief and Works Agency$28K
- UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs$9,000
- World Food Programme$604
Received $795K from 24 charities:
- RBC Foundation$400K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$126K
- Canadahelps Canadon$57K
- Canadahelps Canadon$57K
- Unifor Social Justice Fund/Le fonds de justice sociale d'Unifor$50K
- ATCO Electric Epic$32K
- Vancouver Foundation$18K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$11K
- The Peter Gilgan Foundation$10K
- The Peter Gilgan Foundation$10K
- Allen Family Foundation$10K
- McCarthy Tetrault Foundation$5,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$3,389
- Vancity Community Foundation$2,500
- Abundance Canada$1,000
- Vancity Community Foundation$1,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$805
- The Generalate of the Sisters of the Precious Blood$150
- Vancity Community Foundation$100
- Association Bouddhique vietnamienne au Canada$100
- United Way of Greater Toronto$90
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$82
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$60
- The Sisters of Instruction of the Child Jesus—
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
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions10
- Total compensation, all staff$1M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Elsa Jutras-Vigneault (reg rep - quebec); Aldelkarim Awwad (director); Hassan Yussuff (director); Aki Temiseva (ex offico ceo & president).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from United Nations Association in Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119276855RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.