Bishop's University Foundation
Public foundation · Sherbrooke, Quebec · BN 118810787RR0001 · Foundations Advancing Education · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-04-30. Split of total expenditures ($7,247,523) as filed with the CRA.
Bishop's University Foundation is a public foundation based in Sherbrooke, Quebec, classified by the CRA under foundations advancing education. In its fiscal year ending April 30, 2024, it reported $7.1M in revenue and $7.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 44% from donations, 9% from other charities. In 2024, 32 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.4M.
Compared with 632 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 88% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $6.6M in 2024, the largest being $6.6M to Bishop's University. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 18 names.
In its own words
The bishop's university foundation assists the bishop's university by providing financial support for its educational athletics scholarships and research programs
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $7.1M | $7.2M | $531K | — | $6.6M | $82.7M |
| 2023 | $12.5M | $12.4M | $536K | — | $11.7M | $78.8M |
| 2022 | $14.1M | $6.6M | $387K | — | $6.1M | $76.3M |
| 2021 | $6.5M | $7.3M | $292K | — | $6.9M | $76.9M |
| 2020 | $10.4M | $6.5M | $349K | — | $6.1M | $65.8M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $6.6M to 1 qualified donee:
- Bishop's University$6.6M
Received $1.4M from 32 charities:
- The Jarislowsky Foundation/la Fondation Jarislowsky$500K
- Hewitt Foundation$200K
- Fondation J-Louis Lévesque$200K
- The Molson Foundation/fondation Molson$100K
- Estate of the Late Sidney Milton Medine$78K
- The Holt Foundation$71K
- The Foundation Office.ca$63K
- The Lincolnshire Foundation$45K
- Canada Gives$23K
- The Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation/La Fondation Canadienne Beaverbrook$20K
- Fondation de la famille Zeller$15K
- Molson Coors Canada Donations Fund$15K
- Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal$13K
- Wood Family Foundation$10K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$10K
- Canadahelps Canadon$7,641
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$7,000
- WCPD Foundation$5,617
- The Wilson Foundation la Fondation Wilson$5,000
- Philip & Judith Webster Family Foundation$5,000
- Fondation Familles Lauzon et Provencher$5,000
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$5,000
- CN Employees' and Pensioners' Community Fund$4,385
- The Middlefield Charitable Foundation$3,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$2,855
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Peter Dunn (trustee); Robert Goldberger (trustee); Timothy Griffin (trustee); Jo-Anne Ryan (trustee); Mark Sakaly (trustee); Stephen Lloyd (trustee); Robert Dunn (trustee); Jacqueline Scott (trustee); Sébastien Lebel-Grenier (trustee); Isabelle Goyette (treasurer); Robert Hall (trustee); Jane Brydges (trustee); Lynn Bridgman (trustee); Roger Hardy (trustee); Marie-T Olney (trustee); Ronald C. Loucks (trustee); Daniel Fournier (trustee); Tara Marsh (trustee).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Bishop's University Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118810787RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.