Brock University
Publicly funded institution · ST Catharines, Ontario · BN 118819531RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-04-30. Split of total expenditures ($410,361,318) as filed with the CRA.
Brock University is a charitable organization based in ST Catharines, 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 $394.5M in revenue and $410.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 30% from government. In 2024, 50 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $949K.
Compared with 733 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 67% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $350,000 and over range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 1,932 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 26 names.
In its own words
Teaching and Research in broadly based undergraduate and graduate education programs including professional and interdisciplinary programs. The University provides education programs across seven faculties: Applied Health Sciences Business Education Humanities Mathematics and Science Social Sciences and Graduate Studies.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $394.5M | $410.4M | $382M | $1.6M | — | $255.4M |
| 2023 | $379.8M | $385.5M | $321.4M | $1.3M | — | $264.3M |
| 2022 | $362M | $359.3M | $300.3M | $1.2M | — | $252.1M |
| 2021 | $341.4M | $334.4M | $257M | $976K | — | $257.9M |
| 2020 | $358.2M | $346.3M | $265M | $1.3M | — | $231.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $949K from 50 charities:
- The Yousef Haj-Ahmad Family Foundation$402K
- Clarus Foundation$100K
- United Way Niagara$99K
- The Prostate Cancer Fight Foundation$60K
- Niagara's Cancer CARE Run Foundation$40K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$39K
- The Ontario Paper Thorold Foundation$35K
- Hamilton Community Foundation$28K
- William Birchall Foundation$25K
- Community Foundation for Lennox & Addington$17K
- Aqueduct Foundation$10K
- Walker Wood Foundation$10K
- Brookfield Partners Foundation$10K
- Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de Niagara$5,000
- Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de Niagara$5,000
- Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de Niagara$5,000
- The John Dobson Foundation$5,000
- Hamilton Community Foundation$4,400
- Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de Niagara$3,861
- Canadahelps Canadon$3,350
- Burlington Community Foundation$3,000
- Canadian Federation of University Women - ST. Catharines Charitable Fund$3,000
- Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de Niagara$2,800
- United Way Niagara$2,500
- The McKeil Family Foundation$2,500
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $350,000 and over2 positions
- $300,000–349,9991 position
- $250,000–299,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions1,932
- Total compensation, all staff$260.3M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Mark Arthur (trustee and chair); Brian Lang (trustee); Anne McCourt (trustee); Robert Welch (trustee); Don Cyr (trustee); Hilary Pearson (chancellor); Kristian Knibutat (trustee); Debbie Zimmerman (trustee); Arti Freeman (trustee); Greg Berti (trustee); JoAnna Roberto (trustee); Stephanie Thompson (trustee); Lesley Rigg (president and vice-chancellor); Rejeanne Aimey (trustee); Anteneh Ayanso (trustee); Jonathan Davey (trustee); Nyarayi Kapisavanhu (trustee); Kevin Magee (trustee); Dan Malleck (trustee); Matthew Melynk (trustee); Greg Plata (trustee); Christine Sawchuk (trustee); Allie Hughes (trustee); Laura Lane (trustee); Marleen McMaster (trustee); Yvonne Roussel (secretary).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Brock University’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118819531RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.