Carleton University
Publicly funded institution · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 118838937RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-04-30. Split of total expenditures ($797,702,000) as filed with the CRA.
Carleton University is a charitable organization based in Ottawa, 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 $751.1M in revenue and $797.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 34% from government. In 2024, 86 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $9M.
Compared with 733 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 75% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $300,000–349,999 range (7 positions in that band). The charity reported 2,692 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $35K in 2024, the largest being $35K to University of Saskatchewan. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 37 names.
In its own words
Carleton University provides post-secondary education.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $751.1M | $797.7M | $757.2M | $6.4M | — | $1.2B |
| 2023 | $733.1M | $740.5M | — | — | — | $1.2B |
| 2022 | $673.7M | $684.9M | — | — | — | $1.1B |
| 2021 | $680.8M | $632.4M | — | — | — | $1.2B |
| 2020 | $676M | $625.6M | — | — | — | $947M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $35K to 1 qualified donee:
Received $9M from 86 charities:
- Mastercard Foundation$4M
- Ivey Foundation$625K
- Ivey Foundation$600K
- The Sinneave Family Foundation$455K
- The J W McConnell Family Foundation$330K
- Actua$291K
- Kenneth M. Molson Foundation$276K
- RBC Foundation$200K
- The Trottier Family Foundation/la Fondation Familiale Trottier$200K
- Ivey Foundation$200K
- The Leacross Foundation/La Fondation Leacross$190K
- The Borealis Foundation$150K
- Rideau Hall Foundation$150K
- Liber Ero Foundation$120K
- Diabetes Canada Diabète Canada$100K
- The Jarislowsky Foundation/la Fondation Jarislowsky$100K
- Danbe Foundation Inc.$50K
- Clean Economy Fund$50K
- Sarah & Cary Lavine Family Foundation$50K
- The George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation$50K
- Inspirit Foundation$50K
- Westerkirk Foundation$49K
- Wesley M Nicol Foundation$48K
- The Nature Conservancy of Canada$43K
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$38K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $300,000–349,9997 positions
- $250,000–299,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions2,692
- Total compensation, all staff$508.6M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Howard Babb (member); Yaprak Baltacioğlu (chancellor); Patrick Dion (member); Gregory Farrell (chair); Konrad Von Finckenstein (member); Dan Fortin (past chair); Kim Furlong (member); Jennifer Camelon (member); Daniel Greenberg (member); Nina Karhu (member); Jim Devoe (member); Brenda O'Connor (member); Mat Main (member); Georgette Morris (member); Patrice Smith (member); Jane Taber (member); Christina Tessier (member); Ann Tremblay (member); Suzanne Blanchard (vp (student & enrolment)); Rafik Goubran (vp( research & international)); Thomas Tomberlin (president and vice-chancellor); Amanda Goth (university secretary); Lorraine Dyke (vp (finance & administration)); Janakan Muthukumar (member); John Nelson (member); Alice Keung (member); Lila Rankin (provost and v-p (academic)); Susan Mingie (member); Beth Creary (vice-chair); Adrian Chan (member); Mira Gillis (member); Linda Grussani (member); Al Hamdani (member); Dudley Maseko (member); Laura Newton-Miller (member); Jonathan Ojangole (member); Pamela Wolff (member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Carleton University’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118838937RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.