Greater Essex County District School Board
Publicly funded institution · Windsor, Ontario · BN 870677739RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($587,169,597) as filed with the CRA.
Greater Essex County District School Board is a charitable organization based in Windsor, 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 August 31, 2024, it reported $586.5M in revenue and $587.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 96% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 14 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $78K.
Compared with 733 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 5% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $200,000–249,999 range (3 positions in that band). The charity reported 4,154 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 10 qualified donees totalling $74K in 2024, the largest being $40K to The Terry Fox Foundation. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
The charity collects donations from parents organizations and individuals. All donations will be used for the education of the pupils under the jurisdiction of the greater essex county district school board.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $586.5M | $587.2M | $9.2M | — | $74K | $35.6M |
| 2023 | $513.5M | $508.3M | $8M | — | $55K | $36.2M |
| 2022 | $484.5M | $481M | — | — | $31K | $51.5M |
| 2021 | $476.5M | $467.4M | — | — | $6,318 | $47.9M |
| 2020 | $466M | $443.9M | — | — | $39K | $38.8M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $74K to 10 qualified donees:
- The Terry Fox Foundation$40K
- Canadian Cancer Society$19K
- Kingsville Community Food Bank Association$6,384
- The Hospice for Life Foundation$4,981
- We Care for Kids$1,302
- Drouillard Place$1,176
- Ronald McDonald House$1,000
- Jack.Org$415
- Polar Bears International - Canada$263
- Windsor Regional Hospital Foundation$100
Received $78K from 14 charities:
- Windsoressex Community Foundation$41K
- Indigo Love of Reading Foundation$12K
- Rotary Club of Amherstburg Foundation Fund$5,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$4,826
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$4,826
- Harrow Health and Wellness Foundation$4,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$2,468
- The Bierer Foundation$1,300
- Stein Family Foundation$1,000
- Stratford Shakespearean Festival of Canada$890
- Lakeshore Firefighters Association$500
- Heritage Essex Inc$400
- Holy Name Council No. 3305 Charitable Welfare Trust$200
- United Way / Centraide Windsor-Essex County—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $200,000–249,9993 positions
- $160,000–199,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions4,154
- Total compensation, all staff$479.6M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Julia Burgess (trustee); Catherine Cooke (trustee); Ronald Le Clair (trustee); Linda Qin (trustee); Gale Simko-Hatfield (trustee); Nancy Armstrong (trustee); Connie Buckler (trustee); Kimberly McKinley (trustee); Christie Nelson (trustee).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Greater Essex County District School Board’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 870677739RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.