Bluewater District School Board
Publicly funded institution · Chesley, Ontario · BN 889803227RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($301,487,476) as filed with the CRA.
Bluewater District School Board is a charitable organization based in Chesley, 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 $303.3M in revenue and $301.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 96% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 22 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $216K.
Compared with 733 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 6% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 87% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $250,000–299,999 range. The charity reported 2,206 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
Elementary and secondary public school education programming/instruction in grey and bruce counties
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $303.3M | $301.5M | $14.4M | $6.3M | — | $44M |
| 2023 | $262.1M | $253.3M | $17.6M | $6M | — | $42.2M |
| 2022 | $244.5M | $238.9M | $14.5M | $3.1M | — | $42M |
| 2021 | $235.5M | $224.4M | — | — | — | $36.6M |
| 2020 | $218.9M | $209.1M | $10.5M | $3.5M | — | $25.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $216K from 22 charities:
- Southampton Rotary Club Charitable Trust$78K
- Canada Gives$28K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$27K
- Community Foundation Grey Bruce$22K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$20K
- The Joan and Jim Patterson Foundation$20K
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$4,314
- Canadahelps Canadon$2,015
- Grace United Church$2,000
- Aqueduct Foundation$2,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,797
- Christ Church Anglican$1,500
- Elmwood-Brant Lutheran Parish$1,400
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,078
- Brightshores Health System Wiarton Auxiliary$1,000
- Durham Baptist Church Inc.$1,000
- Meaford United Church$1,000
- Chesley Pastoral Charge$550
- Senior League Endowment Society of Collingwood$500
- Owen Sound Field Naturalists$400
- The Markdale Rotary Club Charitable Trust$360
- The Rotary Club of Port Elgin Ontario$300
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $250,000–299,9991 position
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9998 positions
- Permanent full-time positions2,206
- Total compensation, all staff$236.5M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Tracy Lynn Schaus-Atkinson (trustee); Michael Craig (trustee); Jan Johnstone (vice chair); Derrick Long (trustee); Katie Lutz (trustee); Marilyn McComb (trustee); Fran Morgan (trustee); Jane Thomson (chair); Richelle Ritchie (trustee); Lori Wilder (director of education/secre...); Andrew Low (superintendent of business...).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Bluewater District School Board’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 889803227RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.