Cambrian College of Applied Arts and Technology
Publicly funded institution · Sudbury, Ontario · BN 106833874RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($237,716,311) as filed with the CRA.
Cambrian College of Applied Arts and Technology is a charitable organization based in Sudbury, 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 March 31, 2024, it reported $278.9M in revenue and $237.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 12% from government. In 2024, 12 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $301K.
Compared with 733 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 61% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $200,000–249,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 498 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $104.5M in 2020 to $278.9M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
Cambrian College is Northern Ontario’s largest college with more than 100 programs including degree-level programs. Cambrian College is also a global college of choice with students from more than 60 countries. Cambrian’s main campus is in Greater Sudbury with satellite centres in Espanola and Little Current.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $278.9M | $237.7M | $215.7M | — | $1.7M | $123.5M |
| 2023 | $191.9M | $174M | $156M | — | — | $68.2M |
| 2022 | $134.1M | $126.5M | $110.9M | — | — | $54.3M |
| 2021 | $97.7M | $90.5M | $75.7M | — | — | $46.6M |
| 2020 | $104.5M | $95.2M | $78.9M | — | — | $39.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $301K from 12 charities:
- RBC Foundation$100K
- The Douglas A. Smith Family Foundation$100K
- Sudbury Community Foundation$30K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$26K
- The Lougheed Foundation$25K
- Walker Wood Foundation$10K
- Waterloo Region Community Foundation$3,197
- Enactus Canada$3,000
- The McKeil Family Foundation$2,500
- Canada Gives$1,000
- The Sisters of ST Joseph of Sault Ste Marie$103
- Canadahelps Canadon$26
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $200,000–249,9992 positions
- $160,000–199,9998 positions
- Permanent full-time positions498
- Total compensation, all staff$77.8M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Clair Parkinson (governor); Sophia Moutsatsos (governor); Kelly Niemela (internal governor); Jim Phillips (internal governor).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Cambrian College of Applied Arts and Technology’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 106833874RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.