Enactus Canada
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 859975534RR0001 · Support of Schools and Education · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($2,870,422) as filed with the CRA.
Enactus Canada is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under support of schools and education. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $2.9M in revenue and $2.9M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 40% from donations, 51% from other charities. In 2024, 12 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.3M.
Compared with 632 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 91% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 13 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 49 qualified donees totalling $437K in 2024, the largest being $39K to Nova Scotia Community College. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 15 names.
In its own words
Enactus canada operates programs on various university and college campuses across the country. Guided by academic advisors and business experts the student leaders of enactus canada create and implement community empoerment projects and business ventures in communities coast to coast that aim to use business and entrepreneurship to improve the livelihoods of those in need. To celebrate the entrepreneurial spirit of young canadians enactus canada runs the student entrepreneur national competition. The student entrepreneur national competition enhances the success of full-time students operat…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.9M | $2.9M | $2.4M | — | $437K | $1.7M |
| 2023 | $3.3M | $3.2M | $2.5M | $312K | $222K | $1.7M |
| 2022 | $2.2M | $2.1M | $1.4M | $239K | $384K | $1.6M |
| 2021 | $2.4M | $2.2M | $1.9M | $257K | — | $1.5M |
| 2020 | $2.4M | $2.1M | $1.8M | $227K | — | $1.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $437K to 49 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Nova Scotia Community College$39K
- Memorial University of Newfoundland$30K
- Wilfrid Laurier University$30K
- Saint Mary's University$27K
- University of Ottawa$22K
- The University of British Columbia$22K
- Simon Fraser University$15K
- The Sir Sandford Fleming College of Applied Arts and Technology$15K
- Queen's University at Kingston$13K
- Toronto Metropolitan University$12K
- ST. Thomas University$12K
- University of the Fraser Valley$11K
- University of Saskatchewan$11K
- University of Ontario Institute of Technology$10K
- Capilano University$10K
- Loyalist College of Applied Arts and Technology$9,375
- The Lambton College of Applied Arts and Technology$9,084
- Concordia University-Universite Concordia$9,000
- University of Guelph$8,900
- The Governing Council of the University of Toronto$8,500
- The Durham College of Applied Arts and Technology$8,000
- College of the North Atlantic$7,919
- The Governors of ST. Francis Xavier University$7,000
- Okanagan College$7,000
- Board of Governors of the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology$6,500
Received $1.3M from 12 charities:
- The John Dobson Foundation$500K
- Sauvé Foundation$500K
- Canadahelps Canadon$99K
- Canadahelps Canadon$99K
- Canada Gives$50K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$15K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$9,859
- Fondation de la famille Zeller$5,000
- The Midloch Foundation$5,000
- Thomas Foundation$5,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$1,218
- Doane Grant Thornton Foundation$1,000
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
- $120,000–159,9992 positions
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions13
- Total compensation, all staff$1.4M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
A. Allan Ian Aitken (chair board of directors); Avik Dey (director); Gerardo Frascione (director); Ian Hanning (director); Robert Henderson (director); James Mackay (director); Robert Paterson (vice chair); Mia Pearson (director); James Marsh (director); Susan O'Brien (director); Franca Gucciardi (director); Julie Denton (director); Nuha Siddiqui (director); Annick Charbonneau (director); Catherine Fowler (president secretary).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Enactus Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 859975534RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.