Avon Maitland District School Board
Publicly funded institution · Seaforth, Ontario · BN 873591564RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($263,209,078) as filed with the CRA.
Avon Maitland District School Board is a charitable organization based in Seaforth, Ontario, 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 August 31, 2024, it reported $261.7M in revenue and $263.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 96% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 21 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $108K.
Compared with 733 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 94% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $300,000–349,999 range. The charity reported 1,759 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
We provide public education for elementary and secondary school students. Donations made to the charity are used to fund scholarships and awards to selected recipients (elementary and secondary students and graduates).
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $261.7M | $263.2M | $256.7M | — | — | $13.2M |
| 2023 | $238.9M | $236.4M | $230.3M | — | — | $14.7M |
| 2022 | $223.6M | $219.4M | $213.8M | — | — | $23.6M |
| 2021 | $214.6M | $213.5M | $208.3M | $0 | — | $19.4M |
| 2020 | $204.5M | $197.2M | $192M | — | — | $18.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $108K from 21 charities:
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$50K
- Stratford and Perth County Community Foundation$21K
- Stratford and Perth County Community Foundation$7,300
- Stratford Shakespearean Festival of Canada$7,204
- Janet and Margreta Snell Scholarship Fund$5,400
- Canadian Medical Foundation$5,000
- Waterloo Region Community Foundation$3,197
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$1,982
- Lions Club of Goderich Charitable Trust$1,250
- Sunset Community Foundation$1,167
- Atwood United Church$1,000
- Sunset Community Foundation$1,000
- Community Foundation Grey Bruce$1,000
- Hutton Heights Community Church$850
- Sunset Community Foundation$484
- Stratford and Perth County Community Foundation$300
- Stratford and Perth County Community Foundation$300
- INNERchamber Inc.$100
- Board of Health for the Huron Perth Health Unit$50
- Canadahelps Canadon$24
- My Tribute Gift Foundation—
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
- $160,000–199,9998 positions
- Permanent full-time positions1,759
- Total compensation, all staff$205.9M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Robert Hunking (chair of the board); Nancy Rothwell (vice chair of the board); Cheri Carter (treasurer of the board); Sheila Armstrong-Marshall (trustee); Michael Bannerman (trustee); Joseph Cohen (trustee); Deborah Logue (trustee); Patricia Smith (trustee); Bruce Whitaker (trustee); Graham Shantz (director & secretary of board); David Briant (trustee).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Avon Maitland District School Board’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 873591564RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.