Balsillie School of International Affairs
Publicly funded institution · Waterloo, Ontario · BN 800862336RR0001 · Teaching Institutions
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-04-30. Split of total expenditures ($978,822) as filed with the CRA.
Balsillie School of International Affairs is a charitable organization based in Waterloo, 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 April 30, 2024, it reported $1.9M in revenue and $979K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 52% from donations. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $28.
Compared with 1,247 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 2% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 3 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $642K in 2020 to $1.9M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
The balsillie school of international affairs ('bsia' or the 'school') facilitates collaborative research among its faculty and students and conducts outreach activities guided by research priorities that the school has established including hosting events and workshops at the school. Bsia may facilitate publication of the work of its faculty and graduate students through occasional papers and other on-line publications. Such publications are subject to an impartial peer review process that employs the strictest of academic standards. Bsia offers executive short courses branded under the 'ba…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.9M | $979K | $69K | — | — | $281K |
| 2023 | $656K | $670K | — | — | — | $261K |
| 2022 | $572K | $587K | — | — | — | $275K |
| 2021 | $613K | $620K | — | — | — | $290K |
| 2020 | $642K | $571K | — | — | — | $297K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $28 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions3
- Total compensation, all staff$309K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Shelley Boettger (treasurer); Jeff Casello (board chair); Laura Kacur (director); Jatin Nathwani (director); Brent Wolfe (secretary); Edgar Allstair (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Balsillie School of International Affairs’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 800862336RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.