Niagara Catholic District School Board
Publicly funded institution · Welland, Ontario · BN 108195520RR0002 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($337,080,932) as filed with the CRA.
Niagara Catholic District School Board is a charitable organization based in Welland, 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 $336.8M in revenue and $337.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 96% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 10 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $33K.
Compared with 733 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 56% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 97% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $250,000–299,999 range. The charity reported 2,223 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 23 qualified donees totalling $175K in 2024, the largest being $39K to Soeurs de Sainte-Croix. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
Activities and expenditures related to the educational instruction of students in elementary secondary and continuing education classes in the niagara region as well as the operation and maintenance of the related facilities
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $336.8M | $337.1M | $302.9M | $7.4M | $175K | $25M |
| 2023 | $292.6M | $291.6M | $259.5M | $7.5M | $22K | $25.2M |
| 2022 | $285.1M | $285.2M | $258M | $4.8M | $17K | $26.8M |
| 2021 | $271.8M | $272.6M | $248.5M | $1.9M | — | $26.8M |
| 2020 | $260.8M | $257.7M | $232.9M | $4.5M | — | $27.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $175K to 23 qualified donees:
- Soeurs de Sainte-Croix$39K
- The Terry Fox Foundation$28K
- Niagara Children's Centre$18K
- The Niagara Foundation for Catholic Education$18K
- Hope for Rwanda's Children Fund$14K
- The Dominican-Canadian Community Development Group$12K
- Organisation Catholique Canadienne pour le Développement et la Paix$9,868
- Pontificial Association of the Holy Childhood of Canada$9,108
- Wells of Hope International Development Inc.$8,637
- Pathstone Foundation$5,025
- Holy Cross Fathers of the Sacred Heart Province$4,934
- Salvation Army$1,350
- Niagara Resource Service for Youth$1,250
- Start Me Up Niagara$1,250
- Royal Canadian Legion Branch 479 Niagara Falls Poppy Fund$893
- Tim Horton Children's Foundation Inc.$846
- YMCA of Niagara$750
- Niagara Foundation for Family and Children Services$714
- Benevolent Society of Grimsby and District$705
- The Hope Centre: Community Resources in Advocacy$520
- The Kristen French Child Advocacy Centre Niagara$500
- Port Colborne Community Association for Resource Extension$498
- Mary's Meals Canada$348
Received $33K from 10 charities:
- Benevolent Society of Grimsby and District$9,000
- Newark Neighbours$6,000
- The Ontario Paper Thorold Foundation$5,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$4,968
- Stratford Shakespearean Festival of Canada$3,000
- Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de Niagara$2,000
- Our Lady of the Lake Council No. 4917 Charitable Welfare Trust$1,700
- East Bertie Auxiliary Volunteer Fire Association$1,000
- Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de Niagara$700
- Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de Niagara$100
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $250,000–299,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9999 positions
- Permanent full-time positions2,223
- Total compensation, all staff$268M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Rhianon Burkholder (vice chair); Larry Huibers (trustee); Paul Turner (trustee); Danny DI Lorenzo (chair); Natalia Benoit (trustee); Joe Bruzzese (trustee); Doug Joyner (trustee); Jim Marino (trustee).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Niagara Catholic District School Board’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 108195520RR0002), or read how we compute the receipt.