CWB Welding Foundation
Publicly funded institution · Milton, Ontario · BN 836340539RR0001 · Foundations Advancing Education
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($8,434,364) as filed with the CRA.
CWB Welding Foundation is a public foundation based in Milton, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations advancing education. 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 $9.7M in revenue and $8.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 43% from donations, 50% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 4 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $79K.
Compared with 1,247 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 96% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 14 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 94 qualified donees totalling $3.7M in 2024, the largest being $462K to Fanshawe College of Applied Arts & Technology. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.9M in 2020 to $9.7M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
1. To advance education by providing scholarships bursaries awards and other forms of financial assistance to individuals pursuing education in the field of welding and allied processes. 2. To advance education by providing programs workshops educational materials and equipment related to the field welding joining and allied processes to individuals pursuing education in the field of welding joining and allied processes. 3. To conduct research with respect to welding and allied processes and to disseminate the results of such research. 4. To receive and maintain a fund or fun…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $9.7M | $8.4M | $4.8M | — | $3.7M | $6.5M |
| 2023 | $4M | $5.7M | $3.7M | — | $2M | $5.2M |
| 2022 | $4.5M | $3M | $2.1M | — | $939K | $6.9M |
| 2021 | $5.2M | $2.3M | $1.1M | — | $1.1M | $5.4M |
| 2020 | $1.9M | $2.1M | $1.2M | — | $910K | $2.4M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $3.7M to 94 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Fanshawe College of Applied Arts & Technology$462K
- College of the North Atlantic$412K
- Manitoba Institute of Trades & Technology$262K
- University of the Fraser Valley$243K
- Yukon University$171K
- Red River College Polytechnic$162K
- New Brunswick Community College$159K
- College Boreal d'Arts Appliques et de Technologie$142K
- Sae Estrie$137K
- University of Waterloo$135K
- Northwestern Polytechnic$128K
- Women Building Futures Society$101K
- Canadian Institute of Steel Construction Educ & Research$100K
- The Governors of the University of Alberta$85K
- Okanagan College$84K
- The Minster of Finance (sprucedale Youth Centre)$80K
- Reseau de la Metallurgie du Quebec$63K
- Coast Mountain College$57K
- Skills/compétences Canada Corporation$55K
- Northern Alberta Institute of Technology$54K
- Map Strategic Workforce Services$49K
- Indspire$25K
- Superior-Greenstone District School Board$25K
- Matawa First Nations Management$24K
- Saskatchewan Indian Institute of Technologies$22K
Received $79K from 4 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9994 positions
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- $1–39,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions14
- Total compensation, all staff$1.5M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
David Collie (director); Jackie Connell (director); Nicole Davies (director); Doug Luciani (vice chair); Rob Marion (director); David Santi (director); Shaun Thorson (director); Sarah Watts-Rynard (vice chair).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from CWB Welding Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 836340539RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.