Niagara College of Applied Arts and Technology
Publicly funded institution · Welland, Ontario · BN 119057180RR0001 · Teaching Institutions
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($387,143,851) as filed with the CRA.
Niagara College of Applied Arts and Technology 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 March 31, 2024, it reported $450M in revenue and $387.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 11% from government. In 2024, 16 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.6M.
Compared with 733 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 97% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $350,000 and over range. The charity reported 1,030 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $208.4M in 2020 to $450M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 1 name.
In its own words
Providing ongoing experiential learning and education as well as bursaries and scholarships to students. Holding of special accounts 'in trust'. Special events
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $450M | $387.1M | $385.2M | $422K | — | $248.6M |
| 2023 | $337.4M | $296.3M | $642K | $124K | — | $182.1M |
| 2022 | $210M | $194.1M | $535K | $71K | — | $147.7M |
| 2021 | $2.3M | $1.9M | — | — | $1.9M | $21.2M |
| 2020 | $208.4M | $190.6M | $765K | — | — | -$223.7M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $1.6M from 16 charities:
- The Joyce Family Foundation$1.5M
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$30K
- The Masonic Foundation of Ontario$25K
- The Ontario Paper Thorold Foundation$20K
- Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de Niagara$13K
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$8,660
- Ontario Credit Union Foundation$6,934
- RBC Foundation$6,000
- Muskoka Community Foundation$5,000
- Smart Serve Ontario$4,000
- The Medavie Foundation Inc.$3,500
- Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de Niagara$3,000
- Hamilton Community Foundation$2,000
- Lincoln Garden Club and Horticultural Society$2,000
- Skills For Hope Foundation$1,000
- Canadahelps Canadon$129
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
- $250,000–299,9996 positions
- $200,000–249,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions1,030
- Total compensation, all staff$145.8M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Sean Kennedy (secretar).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Niagara College of Applied Arts and Technology’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119057180RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.