Lakehead University
Publicly funded institution · Thunder Bay, Ontario · BN 119002681RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-04-30. Split of total expenditures ($221,288,000) as filed with the CRA.
Lakehead University is a charitable organization based in Thunder Bay, 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 $228.9M in revenue and $221.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 34% from government. In 2024, 36 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $832K.
Compared with 733 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 1% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 76% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $350,000 and over range. The charity reported 1,036 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 2 qualified donees totalling $15.3M in 2024, the largest being $15.2M to Northern Ontario School of Medicine University. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 2 names.
In its own words
University - Post Secondary Education and Research
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $228.9M | $221.3M | — | $530K | $16K | $103.9M |
| 2023 | $216.8M | $213.2M | — | $522K | $17K | $104M |
| 2022 | $184.8M | $205.2M | — | $537K | $18K | $92M |
| 2021 | $198.3M | $187.6M | $0 | $452K | $40K | $110.2M |
| 2020 | $200.2M | $198.7M | — | $574K | $21K | $293.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $15.3M to 2 qualified donees:
Received $832K from 36 charities:
- Petro-Canada CareMakers Foundation Fondation Proches Aimants Petro-Canada$250K
- GiftPact Foundation Inc.$100K
- Actua$86K
- BenefAction Foundation$52K
- John Andrews Foundation$50K
- Future Generations Foundation$42K
- Brain Canada Foundation$41K
- J.P. Bickell Foundation$28K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$26K
- The Eric S. Margolis Family Foundation$25K
- The Asper Foundation$20K
- Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada$13K
- F. K. Morrow Foundation$10K
- The Frank H Hori Charitable Foundation$10K
- Oakville Community Foundation$10K
- Toronto Foundation$10K
- WCS Wildlife Conservation Society Canada$7,800
- Raag-Rung Music Circle$6,000
- Ontario Professional Engineers Foundation for Education$6,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$5,805
- Enactus Canada$5,000
- The John Dobson Foundation$5,000
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$4,000
- Canadian Medical Foundation$2,547
- Vancouver Foundation$2,500
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $350,000 and over1 position
- $200,000–249,9999 positions
- Permanent full-time positions1,036
- Total compensation, all staff$141.9M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Michael den Haan (vp external relations); Gillian Siddall (president).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Lakehead University’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119002681RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.