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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
$752KRevenue reported
$4.4MPublic money on record
6On the board
4Organisations connected
3Independent publishers
86/100Evidence depth
October 24, 2026Latest source capture
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.
Evidence depth
86/100
Deep record

This scores the depth of the public evidence assembled here. It does not score the organisation’s quality, reputation, solvency or risk. The formula is fixed and reproducible. See the formula.

Identityregistrations and identifiers
Operationsmunicipal licences
Filed figuresfinancials or workforce
Public moneycontracts or grants
Relationshipsfiled board or organisation links
Qualificationsstanding offers or supply arrangements
Public activitypermits and recorded work
Regulatorydecided findings
Dated historyevents with effective dates

Additional graph evidence outside the score: 4 organisation connections.

Public footprint · version 1

Where this organisation appears in public records

Eight independent dimensions describe the size and shape of the evidence. They are deliberately not added into one company score: a licence, a grant, a director filing and a court finding mean different things.

Footprint is not performance.

A larger bar means more public records of that kind. It does not mean better, worse, safer, larger, more profitable or more reputable.

Identityregistries, identifiers and corroboration
100
Operationslicences and operating places
0
Filed disclosurepublic financials and workforce
60
Public moneycontracts, grants and contribution records
66
Public activitypermits and recorded work
0
Relationshipsfiled board and identifier-linked organisations
58
Regulatorydecided public findings
0
Historydated span and recorded events
92

Each dimension uses fixed, logarithmic caps so one dataset with thousands of repeated rows cannot drown out every other fact. Read the formula and limits.

Registrations
RegistrarInstrumentNumberRegisteredStatus
Canada Revenue AgencyRegistered charity130592405RR0001—Registered
Corporations Canada (Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada)Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act155209June 25, 2014Active
Board and officers on record (6)
NamePositionServing sinceStatus
Fred MillsDIRECTORNovember 23, 2023current
Ken RubinDIRECTORJune 30, 2022current
Jonathan SchachterVICE CHAIROctober 10, 2019current
Leigha WorthTREASURERJune 23, 2018current
Harry GowCHAIRNovember 18, 2000current
Ben KlassDIRECTORJune 25, 2021ended 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.

Organisations sharing a filed director name (4)

1 of them shares more than one name, which is a much stronger link than the rest. Those are listed first.

OrganisationKindNames in common
The Public Interest Research Centre
CA-E-WMGN-XPM4
Registered charity6
C. Robert Craig Memorial Library
CA-E-0EQ0-JVK9
Registered charity1
Rond-Point Lanaudière
CA-E-J8XX-51HR
Registered charity1
Transport Action Canada
CA-E-0KYS-DA37
Registered charity1
One name in common is a lead. Two is a link. These come from the director names each organisation filed with the Canada Revenue Agency, matched exactly as filed, and two people can share a name — across the whole corpus 95% of these rest on a single name, so a single match is genuinely weak evidence and is presented as such rather than dressed up. Two of the same names on the same pair of boards is a different matter: coincidence stops being a plausible explanation. A name appearing on more than eight boards is discarded outright as a probable collision.

The link is between organisations and carries only a count. Which people sit on which board stays on each organisation’s own page, exactly as the CRA published it, and there is deliberately no way here to search by a person or to list what one individual is involved in. Why that line is drawn there.
What it raised and spent — year ended March 31, 2024
Total revenue
$751,895
Total spending
$894,427
Total assets
$163,379
Total liabilities
$276,648
Receipted donations
$900
From other charities
$585
Charitable programs89.7% · $802K · line 5000
Management and administration8.6% · $77K · line 5010
Fundraising1.7% · $15K · line 5020
Not broken down in the return0.0% · $1
These are the charity’s own figures. They come from the T3010 return it filed with the Canada Revenue Agency, which is a statement the organisation makes about itself rather than an audit or an assessment of it. They are also a single year: a charity that received a capital gift, sold a building, or ran a campaign will look unlike itself.

A low share spent on programs is not by itself evidence of anything. Fundraising costs money, a year of building a reserve looks like underspending, and grant-making foundations pass money onward rather than running programs. The lines are shown as filed, with the CRA line numbers, so a reader can check them against the return.
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 institutionAwardsValue
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada65$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.
What it does
Industry code
810000
North American Industry Classification System
Trade and licence class are the publisher’s own words, kept as written rather than mapped onto a vocabulary of this site’s invention — a Calgary “RESTAURANT” and a Montréal “Restaurant service rapide” describe the same thing and are not the same string, and pretending otherwise would put words in a city’s mouth. The industry code is the exception: NAICS is a standard shared across Canada, the United States and Mexico, so it means the same thing wherever it appears. Only some publishers assign one.
Timeline
  1. Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$159,000
  2. Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$135,000
  3. Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$185,000
  4. Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$310,000
  5. Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$115,000
  6. Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$50,000
  7. Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$250,000
  8. Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$81,000
  9. Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$92,500
  10. Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$56,500
  11. Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$100,000
  12. Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$49,000
  13. Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$70,500
  14. Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$78,000
  15. Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$91,000
  16. Registered — Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act
  17. Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$74,053
  18. Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$75,000
  19. Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$25,000
  20. Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$83,000
  21. Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$59,000
  22. Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$72,000
  23. Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$53,000
  24. Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$15,000
  25. Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$42,800
  26. Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$82,700
  27. Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$25,000
  28. Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$66,500
  29. Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$66,000
  30. Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$70,000
  31. Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$76,000
  32. Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$53,500
  33. Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$88,000
  34. Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$74,000
  35. Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$83,000
  36. Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$53,323
  37. Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$25,000
  38. Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$64,000
  39. Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$59,000
  40. Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$44,500

Showing the 40 most recent of 66 dated events.

Why this is one record

5 public datasets from 3 independent 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
DatasetLast capturedCadenceCoverage keptHealth
Registered charities — directors and officers (2024 returns)
Canada Revenue Agency · Open Government Licence – Canada
September 2, 2026P1Y1 captures · 0 comparisonscurrent
Registered charities — financial data (2024 returns)
Canada Revenue Agency · Open Government Licence – Canada
September 5, 2026P1Y1 captures · 0 comparisonscurrent
Registered charities — identification (2024 returns)
Canada Revenue Agency · Open Government Licence – Canada
September 8, 2026P1Y2 captures · 1 comparisonscurrent
Federal corporations — active not-for-profit, co-operative and boards of trade
Corporations Canada (Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada) · Open Government Licence – Canada
October 24, 2026P1D11 captures · 10 comparisonsdue
Proactive disclosure — federal grants and contributions
Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat · Open Government Licence – Canada
September 3, 2026P3M1 captures · 0 comparisonscurrent
Freshness is measured, not implied. “Last captured” is when this project last completed a read of the whole source dataset. “Coverage kept” is how many immutable captures and meaningful capture-to-capture comparisons are available. A missed day remains an explicit gap; a later snapshot cannot tell us what happened inside it. See every source.

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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