Registered charity

The Public Interest Advocacy Centre

Legal name on the register: THE PUBLIC INTEREST ADVOCACY CENTRE

CA-E-3RNY-R01HActiveCanada (federal)3 independent sources

On the record

Identifier: CA-E-3RNY-R01H
Address: 512-900 Greenbank Road, OTTAWA, ON, K2J 4P6
Earliest record: November 18, 2000
Also known as: THE PUBLIC INTEREST ADVOCACY CENTRE - LE CENTRE POUR LA DÉFENCE DE L'INTÉRÊT PUBLIC · LE CENTRE POUR LA DÉFENSE DE L'INTÉRÊT PUBLIC

Identifiers held

Charity registration: 130592405RR0001
Business number: 130592405
Corporation number: 155209

Who controls this corporation. Federal corporations must file their Individuals with Significant Control with Corporations Canada. That register is not redistributed here — it can only be searched by corporation name or number, by design, so it cannot become a lookup by a person’s name. Search it directly for corporation number 155209: Corporations Canada — federal corporation search.

Registrations

Registrar	Instrument	Number	Registered	Status
Canada Revenue Agency	Registered charity	130592405RR0001	—	Registered
Corporations Canada (Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada)	Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act	155209	June 25, 2014	Active

Board and officers on record (6)

Name	Position	Serving since	Status
Fred Mills	DIRECTOR	November 23, 2023	current
Ken Rubin	DIRECTOR	June 30, 2022	current
Jonathan Schachter	VICE CHAIR	October 10, 2019	current
Leigha Worth	TREASURER	June 23, 2018	current
Harry Gow	CHAIR	November 18, 2000	current
Ben Klass	DIRECTOR	June 25, 2021	ended November 23, 2023

Filed by the charity itself with the Canada Revenue Agency, under the Open Government Licence. This is the narrowest slate the source publishes — name, position, and tenure only; no address, phone, or email exists in the file to withhold. Why this is published and directors’ home addresses never are.

Public money on record

Federal grants and contributions

$4,394,216

across 65 agreements, 2006–2026

2006$244K

2007$253K

2008$367K

2009$212K

2010$234K

2011$453K

2012$368K

2013$292K

2014$240K

2015$78K

2016$220K

2017$149K

2018$81K

2019$250K

2021$50K

2022$115K

2023$310K

2024$320K

2026$159K

Paying institution	Awards	Value
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada	65	$4,394,216

Value as published, not money paid. The federal contract value field includes the ceiling of standing offers and supply arrangements — purchasing capacity a department may never draw on. A large figure here can mean a large ceiling rather than a large payment.

Awards are attached to this record only where the evidence identifies exactly one organisation: a name and postal area that narrow to a single company, or a name unique across the whole national corpus. Proactive publication truncates the vendor postal code to three characters, so anything that could belong to more than one company is left unattached rather than guessed at. Totals are a floor in that direction. The full rules.

Timeline

April 1, 2026Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$159,000
April 1, 2024Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$135,000
April 1, 2024Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$185,000
May 29, 2023Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$310,000
April 1, 2022Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$115,000
May 10, 2021Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$50,000
July 1, 2019Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$250,000
April 1, 2018Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$81,000
April 1, 2017Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$92,500
April 1, 2017Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$56,500
April 1, 2016Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$100,000
April 1, 2016Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$49,000
April 1, 2016Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$70,500
July 31, 2015Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$78,000
October 1, 2014Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$91,000
June 25, 2014Registered — Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act
April 1, 2014Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$74,053
April 1, 2014Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$75,000
April 1, 2013Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$25,000
April 1, 2013Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$83,000
April 1, 2013Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$59,000
April 1, 2013Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$72,000
April 1, 2013Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$53,000
April 1, 2012Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$15,000
April 1, 2012Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$42,800
April 1, 2012Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$82,700
April 1, 2012Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$25,000
April 1, 2012Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$66,500
April 1, 2012Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$66,000
April 1, 2012Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$70,000
April 1, 2011Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$76,000
April 1, 2011Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$53,500
April 1, 2011Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$88,000
April 1, 2011Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$74,000
April 1, 2011Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$83,000
April 1, 2011Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$53,323
April 1, 2011Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$25,000
April 1, 2010Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$64,000
April 1, 2010Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$59,000
April 1, 2010Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$44,500

Showing the 40 most recent of 66 dated events.

Why this is one record

4 publishers describe this organisation. They were joined into one record because the evidence below agreed — never on a matching name alone.

Shares business number 130592405
asserted by Canada Revenue Agency and Corporations Canada (Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada)
Same name and postal code K2J 4P6
asserted by Canada Revenue Agency and Corporations Canada (Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada)
Same name and address — 512 900 greenbank, ottawa, ON
asserted by Canada Revenue Agency and Corporations Canada (Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada)

An automatic merge requires a shared business number, or a matching name AND address — never a name by itself. How resolution works.

Where this record comes from

Registered charities — directors and officers (2024 returns)
Canada Revenue Agency · Open Government Licence – Canada
Registered charities — identification (2024 returns)
Canada Revenue Agency · Open Government Licence – Canada
Federal corporations — active not-for-profit, co-operative and boards of trade
Corporations Canada (Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada) · Open Government Licence – Canada
Proactive disclosure — federal grants and contributions
Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat · Open Government Licence – Canada

This page is assembled from open data. It is not an official record, and the registrar is authoritative where the two disagree. How records are assembled.

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