Conrad Grebel University College
Publicly funded institution · Waterloo, Ontario · BN 118874411RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-04-30. Split of total expenditures ($11,948,519) as filed with the CRA.
Conrad Grebel University College is a charitable organization based in Waterloo, 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 $11.2M in revenue and $11.9M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 7% from donations, 18% from government, 11% from other charities. In 2024, 18 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1M.
Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 46 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 4 qualified donees totalling $930 in 2024, the largest being $460 to Mennonite Central Committee Ontario. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
Conrad Grebel University College is founded by the Mennonite church and affiliated with the University of Waterloo. The mission and programs of Grebel are rooted in and and inspired by its Christian identity and its Anabaptist/Mennonite heritage. Its programs include residential teaching research and community activities. The College teaches courses in Arts History Music Peace and Conflict Studies Philosophy Religious Studies and Sociology. The College also provides residence accommodation for university students.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $11.2M | $11.9M | — | $166K | — | $10.9M |
| 2023 | $10.5M | $11.1M | $9.9M | $128K | — | $11.6M |
| 2022 | $9.6M | $10M | $9.2M | $124K | — | $11.7M |
| 2021 | $8.5M | $8.9M | $8.2M | $92K | — | $11.5M |
| 2020 | $10.1M | $10M | $9.2M | $133K | — | $11.4M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $930 to 4 qualified donees:
Received $1M from 18 charities:
- Abundance Canada$787K
- RBJ Schlegel Family Foundation$120K
- The Simons Foundation Canada$40K
- Waterloo Region Community Foundation$29K
- The Jim and Lorna Blair Charitable Foundation$12K
- Mennonite Historical Society of Canada$9,500
- Canadahelps Canadon$9,337
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$7,536
- The Pennsylvania German Folklore Society of Ontario$2,000
- Ottawa Mennonite Church$2,000
- Waterloo Rotary Club Charitable Foundation$1,500
- Rotary Club of Kitchener-Westmount Charitable Foundation$1,500
- Rotary Club of Oakville Trafalgar Foundation Inc$1,500
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$902
- Rotary Club of Shelburne Charitable Trust$750
- Rotary Club of Tillsonburg Charitable Trust$250
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$240
- Highland Baptist Church$150
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9993 positions
- $120,000–159,9996 positions
- Permanent full-time positions46
- Total compensation, all staff$7.4M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Donny Cheung (chair program committee); Mario Coniglio (director); Morgan Grainger (treasurer); Roger Kehl (director); Dorothy Nyambi (secretary); Andrew Roth (chair); Marcus Shantz (president); Michael Shum (director); Louise Wideman (vice chair); Anita Tiessen (director); Sharon Lamont (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Conrad Grebel University College’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118874411RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.