Academics without Borders
Publicly funded institution · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 855102588RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($326,977) as filed with the CRA.
Academics without Borders is a charitable organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under teaching institutions. 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 $388K in revenue and $327K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 51% from donations, 35% from other charities. In 2024, 9 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $109K.
Compared with 1,540 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 9% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 88% of that peer group.
In its own words
Academics without border mission is to help people in the developing world realize their dreams through higher education because education is the key to a flourishing society and a sustainable world. Academics without borders' projects are involved in the full range of university and college activities from expanding and improving existing institutions and programs to helping create new ones.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $388K | $327K | $161K | $1,888 | — | $573K |
| 2023 | $222K | $276K | $142K | $1,220 | — | $511K |
| 2022 | $266K | $273K | $161K | $65 | — | $565K |
| 2021 | $370K | $207K | $111K | $305 | — | $571K |
| 2020 | $302K | $209K | $94K | $1,385 | — | $408K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $109K from 9 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Academics without Borders’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 855102588RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.