Actua
Publicly funded institution · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 140573320RR0001 · Support of Schools and Education · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($15,879,279) as filed with the CRA.
Actua is a charitable organization based in Ottawa, Ontario, classified by the CRA under support of schools and education. 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 $15.9M in revenue and $15.9M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 67% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 8 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.3M.
Compared with 733 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 64% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 81% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $300,000–349,999 range. The charity reported 40 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 40 qualified donees totalling $8.2M in 2024, the largest being $697K to The University of British Columbia. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Actua's mandate is to support deliver and advocate for the engagement of youth in stem programming that builds their confidence and skills. Actua's network of member organizations focuses on reaching youth from under-served communities including girls and young women indigenous youth youth in remote and rural communities racialized youth and youth facing other social or economic barriers. We engage and train educators across the country on inclusive approaches to stem engagement equipping them to reach and support all youth. We also conduct and support research that informs and improves o…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $15.9M | $15.9M | $6.4M | $300K | $8.2M | $3.1M |
| 2023 | $19.1M | $19.1M | $6.8M | $258K | $11.2M | $3.1M |
| 2022 | $15.7M | $15.6M | $5M | $222K | $9.7M | $3M |
| 2021 | $13.1M | $12.8M | $4.5M | $211K | $7.4M | $3M |
| 2020 | $12.8M | $12.2M | $4.4M | $66K | $7.4M | $2.7M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $8.2M to 40 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- The University of British Columbia$697K
- Ontario Tech University Engineering Outr$566K
- The Governing Council of the University of Toronto$506K
- University of Ottawa$483K
- University of Waterloo$440K
- Dalhousie University$418K
- University of Regina$405K
- McMaster University$375K
- The University of Manitoba$330K
- Carleton University$291K
- University of Victoria$278K
- The University of Lethbridge$269K
- Western Engineering Outreach Programs$251K
- Yukon University$214K
- Queen's University at Kingston$210K
- Folie Technique$202K
- Red Hot Science at Red Deer Polytechnic$178K
- Aurora College$162K
- The University of New Brunswick$150K
- Memorial University of Newfoundland$149K
- Simon Fraser University$147K
- University of Saskatchewan$143K
- Trent University$130K
- The Canadore College of Applied Arts and Technology$120K
- Technoscience Coeur du Québec$93K
Received $1.3M from 8 charities:
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$546K
- RBC Foundation$375K
- Toyota Canada Foundation/fondation Toyota Canada$200K
- The McCain Foundation$100K
- Canada Post Community Foundation/Fondation Communautaire de Postes Canada$50K
- Randstad Canada Charitable Foundation$25K
- Canadahelps Canadon$17K
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$250
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $300,000–349,9991 position
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions40
- Total compensation, all staff$4.5M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Trevor Cuddy (chair); Michael Munoz (treasurer); Tyler Wish (director); Marshall Self (director); Tibetha Kemble (director); Denise Williams (director); Katharine Smart (director); James Olson (director); Jennifer Flanagan (president).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Actua’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 140573320RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.