Brandon University
Publicly funded institution · Brandon, Manitoba · BN 106806789RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($77,314,420) as filed with the CRA.
Brandon University is a charitable organization based in Brandon, Manitoba, 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 March 31, 2024, it reported $76.3M in revenue and $77.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 61% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 18 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $3.4M.
Compared with 733 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 68% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $300,000–349,999 range. The charity reported 443 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 15 names.
In its own words
Brandon university provides the resources and facilities for the education of undergraduate students graduate students and for faculty members to conduct research.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $76.3M | $77.3M | $72.1M | $1.2M | — | $97.2M |
| 2023 | $71.4M | $69.2M | $64.4M | $1.2M | — | $92.3M |
| 2022 | $78.2M | $66.2M | $61.8M | $969K | — | $102M |
| 2021 | $67.6M | $64.6M | $60.4M | $985K | — | $99.1M |
| 2020 | $71.2M | — | $65.1M | $1M | $71.1M | $87.7M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $3.4M from 18 charities:
- Brandon University Foundation$3.1M
- Actua$85K
- The Winnipeg Foundation$82K
- The Cardinal Foundation$26K
- Breast Cancer Canada Cancer du sein du Canada$25K
- Canadian Women's Foundation$22K
- Canadian Women's Foundation$22K
- The Killarney Foundation Inc.$13K
- The Boissevain and Morton Foundation Incorporated$2,570
- The Glenboro Area Foundation Inc$1,745
- The Calgary Foundation$1,600
- Glenboro Agricultural Society$1,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$1,000
- The United Church of Canada Foundation$1,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$890
- Souris Glenwood Foundation Inc.$780
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$622
- Manitoba Foundation for Sports Inc$500
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
- $200,000–249,9992 positions
- $160,000–199,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions443
- Total compensation, all staff$53.3M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Julee Galvin (chair/oic); David Docherty (president); Kristal Bayes-McDonald (secretary/oic); Kevan Sumner (vice-chair/oic); Scott Hayward (treasurer/oic); Michelle Magnusson (senate); Mary Jane McCallum (chancellor); Michael Juce (oic); Barbara Mackalski (oic); Quintin Pearce (oic); Edward Bach (senate); Chukwuanugo Okudo (busu); Asit Patel (oic-student); Joy Chikezie (busu); Ayushi Patel (oic-student).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Brandon University’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 106806789RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.