Registered charity
The Samara Centre for Democracy
CA-E-Q80P-4C8JActiveCanada (federal)3 independent sources
$868KRevenue reported
$40KPublic money on record
11On the board
14Organisations connected
3Independent publishers
86/100Evidence depth
October 24, 2026Latest source capture
On the record
- Identifier
- CA-E-Q80P-4C8J
- Address
- 33 PRINCE ARTHUR AVENUE, TORONTO, ON, M5R 1B2
- Earliest record
- December 22, 2009
- Also known as
- Le Centre Samara pour la démocratie
Identifiers held
- Charity registration
- 843093295RR0001
- Business number
- 843093295
- Corporation number
- 4491408
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 4491408: Corporations Canada — federal corporation search.
Evidence depth
86/100
Deep recordThis 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: 14 organisation connections · 1 same-address neighbours.
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
32
Public activitypermits and recorded work
0
Relationshipsfiled board and identifier-linked organisations
69
Regulatorydecided public findings
0
Historydated span and recorded events
65
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
| Registrar | Instrument | Number | Registered | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canada Revenue Agency | Registered charity | 843093295RR0001 | — | Registered |
| Corporations Canada (Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada) | Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act | 4491408 | April 24, 2013 | Active |
Board and officers on record (11)
| Name | Position | Serving since | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debra Thompson | BOARD MEMBER | June 13, 2024 | current |
| Kathleen Mahoney | BOARD MEMBER | June 13, 2024 | current |
| Lisa Laflamme | BOARD MEMBER | June 15, 2023 | current |
| Jeilah Chan | BOARD MEMBER | March 10, 2023 | current |
| Liban Abokor | BOARD MEMBER | September 17, 2021 | current |
| Zain Velji | BOARD MEMBER | September 17, 2021 | current |
| Michael Macmillan | BOARD MEMBER CHAIR | December 22, 2009 | current |
| Ruth Ostrower | BOARD MEMBER SECRETARY TREASU | December 22, 2009 | current |
| Elizabeth Dowdeswell | BOARD MEMBER | — | current |
| Chad Rogers | BOARD MEMBER | December 13, 2018 | ended June 2, 2025 |
| Leen Al Zaibak | BOARD MEMBER | June 9, 2017 | ended June 13, 2024 |
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 (14)
Every one of these rests on a single name in common, which is the weakest form this evidence takes — read them as leads, not findings.
| Organisation | Kind | Names in common |
|---|---|---|
| Bay Tree Foundation CA-E-CT46-EKVB | Registered charity | 1 |
| Calgary Young Men's Christian Association CA-E-V5ZQ-4JB9 | Registered charity | 1 |
| Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences CA-E-DV5S-8VH4 | Registered charity | 1 |
| For Black Communities CA-E-1YH8-X2FA | Registered charity | 1 |
| Jusoor Canada CA-E-2NJH-HEDV | Registered charity | 1 |
| Kiwanis Music Festival Association Of Greater Toronto CA-E-QV91-KW2R | Registered charity | 1 |
| Rideau Hall Foundation CA-E-SRW9-6571 | Registered charity | 1 |
| Solel Congregation Of Mississauga CA-E-9M4X-H6JW | Registered charity | 1 |
| The Aga Khan Museum CA-E-Q3A4-X374 | Registered charity | 1 |
| The Calgary Ymca Foundation CA-E-AVTH-V3Q9 | Registered charity | 1 |
| The Jesse Davidson Foundation CA-E-ABB2-23E7 | Registered charity | 1 |
| The King’s Trust Canada/la Fondation Du Roi Au Canada CA-E-TVX3-W86K | Registered charity | 1 |
| The Macmillan Family Foundation CA-E-MV9H-4XEB | Registered charity | 1 |
| The World Remembers: 1914-1918 CA-E-MS7R-J6YD | Registered charity | 1 |
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.
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.
At the same address (1)
Organisations that filed the same street address and suite as this one, 33 PRINCE ARTHUR AVE.
| Organisation | Kind |
|---|---|
| The World Remembers: 1914-1918 CA-E-MS7R-J6YD | Registered charity |
A shared door is not always a shared purpose. Sharing an address can mean one organisation with several registered arms, a building a sector clusters in, or simply a landlord. It is a fact about where filings were sent, not a claim about who controls whom.
Addresses used here are only ones already published on these pages: where a single publisher asserts an address it is coarsened to a locality, because a registered office is very often somebody’s home. And where 25 or more organisations share one door — a registered agent or a law firm — no connection is drawn at all, because at that point the address describes the agent rather than the organisations. How address precision is decided.
Addresses used here are only ones already published on these pages: where a single publisher asserts an address it is coarsened to a locality, because a registered office is very often somebody’s home. And where 25 or more organisations share one door — a registered agent or a law firm — no connection is drawn at all, because at that point the address describes the agent rather than the organisations. How address precision is decided.
What it raised and spent — year ended December 31, 2024
- Total revenue
- $868,046
- Total spending
- $944,011
- Total assets
- $693,872
- Total liabilities
- $71,886
- Receipted donations
- $2,100
- From other charities
- $680,275
Charitable programs69.8% · $659K · line 5000
Management and administration24.6% · $232K · line 5010
Fundraising5.7% · $54K · line 5020
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.
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 contracts
$40,000
across 1 award, 2022–2022
| Paying institution | Awards | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Women and Gender Equality Canada | 1 | $40,000 |
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.
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
- Federal contract — Women and Gender Equality Canada$40,000
- Registered — Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act
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 843093295asserted 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
| Dataset | Last captured | Cadence | Coverage kept | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Registered charities — directors and officers (2024 returns) Canada Revenue Agency · Open Government Licence – Canada | September 2, 2026 | P1Y | 1 captures · 0 comparisons | current |
| Registered charities — financial data (2024 returns) Canada Revenue Agency · Open Government Licence – Canada | September 5, 2026 | P1Y | 1 captures · 0 comparisons | current |
| Registered charities — identification (2024 returns) Canada Revenue Agency · Open Government Licence – Canada | September 8, 2026 | P1Y | 2 captures · 1 comparisons | current |
| Proactive publication — federal contracts over $10,000 Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat · Open Government Licence – Canada | September 1, 2026 | P3M | 1 captures · 0 comparisons | current |
| 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, 2026 | P1D | 11 captures · 10 comparisons | due |
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.
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