Ambrose University
Publicly funded institution · Calgary, Alberta · BN 872804406RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-04-30. Split of total expenditures ($22,098,640) as filed with the CRA.
Ambrose University is a charitable organization based in Calgary, Alberta, 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 April 30, 2024, it reported $32.6M in revenue and $22.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 5% from donations, 10% from government. In 2024, 78 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1M.
Compared with 733 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 83% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 86% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 94 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $19.5M in 2020 to $32.6M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
Post-secondary educational degree programs
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $32.6M | $22.1M | $21.2M | $100K | — | $21.2M |
| 2023 | $20.3M | $21.7M | $20.4M | $665K | — | $9.7M |
| 2022 | $20M | $19.4M | $17.9M | $651K | — | $10.4M |
| 2021 | $21.2M | $17.5M | $16.7M | $67K | — | $10.8M |
| 2020 | $19.5M | $19.8M | $17.8M | $116K | — | $7M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $1M from 78 charities:
- The Christian and Missionary Alliance in Canada/ l'Alliance Chretienne et Missionnaire au Canada$523K
- Canadian National Christian Foundation$70K
- Church of the Nazarene Canada West District$65K
- Koinonia Charitable Trust$50K
- Westside Calgary Chinese Alliance Church$42K
- BenefAction Foundation$35K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$15K
- North Richmond Alliance Church$12K
- The Ottawa Chinese Alliance Church$11K
- South Edmonton Alliance Church$10K
- Charis Good News Foundation$10K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$10K
- Canadahelps Canadon$9,963
- Burnaby Alliance Church$8,300
- Coram Deo Foundation$7,500
- Church of the Living Hope Inc.$7,418
- ATB Investor Services Foundation$6,082
- South Gate Alliance$6,000
- Fraser Lands Church of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Canada$5,442
- Abundance Canada$5,000
- Onesimus Global Foundation$5,000
- Scarborough Chinese Alliance Church of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Canada$5,000
- Windsor Chinese Alliance Church$5,000
- Church of the Nazarene Canada Pacific District$4,950
- History & Heroes Foundation$4,500
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9992 positions
- $80,000–119,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions94
- Total compensation, all staff$12.3M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Teresa Davidson (director); Scott Dickie (director); Darren Herbold (director ex officio); Janet Kirby (director); Leonard Lam (director); Ilse LI (director); Howard Louie (director); Debra Mills (chair); Srimal Ranasinghe (director); Alexandria Randell (director); Bernie Van de Walle (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Ambrose University’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 872804406RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.