Brandon University Foundation
Public foundation · Brandon, Manitoba · BN 889535449RR0001 · Foundations Advancing Education · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,193,404) as filed with the CRA.
Brandon University Foundation is a public foundation based in Brandon, Manitoba, classified by the CRA under foundations advancing education. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $7M in revenue and $3.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 21% from donations, 5% from other charities. In 2024, 14 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $335K.
Compared with 632 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 86% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $3.1M in 2024, the largest being $3.1M to Brandon University. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 24 names.
In its own words
Conduct fundraising campaigns and initiatives to enhance scholarships and bursaries research library holdings and facilities at brandon university.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $7M | $3.2M | — | — | $3.1M | $81.8M |
| 2023 | $4.2M | $3.4M | — | — | $3.4M | $69.1M |
| 2022 | $4.9M | $3.3M | — | — | $3.3M | $62.3M |
| 2021 | $25.4M | $3.2M | — | — | $3.1M | $71.3M |
| 2020 | $5.3M | $3.1M | — | — | $3M | $63.8M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $3.1M to 1 qualified donee:
- Brandon University$3.1M
Received $335K from 14 charities:
- Wagner Green Family Trust$210K
- The Winnipeg Foundation$50K
- The Cardinal Foundation$25K
- The Brandon Area Community Foundation Inc.$22K
- The Cardinal Foundation$10K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$4,000
- Foundation for Choral Music in Manitoba Inc$4,000
- Canadahelps Canadon$2,786
- United Way Of Brandon & District Inc.$2,525
- The Leonard Foundation$1,732
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$1,317
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$996
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$624
- My Tribute Gift Foundation—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Tilda Fortier (president); Chris Hunt (vice-president); Dwight Conroy (past-president); Kerry Auriat (treasurer); Ray Berthelette; Laurence Bertram; Emelio Brown; Kofi Campbell; Richard Greer; Bryan Hill (bog senate rep); Leah Laplante; Mike Leech; Lavone Lesperance-Caron; Robert McLennan; Hamid Mumin; William Myers; Reta Saborowski; Kesha Haulder (busu rep); Quintin Pearce (bog oic rep); David Docherty (president & vice chancellor); Peter Hickey (vice-president administration); Carla Eisler (director advancement & alumni); Jeff Fawcett (his worship mayor); Angela Hamm.
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Brandon University Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 889535449RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.