Oak Bridge Academy
Publicly funded institution · Cambridge, Ontario · BN 711544296RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($3,400,994) as filed with the CRA.
Oak Bridge Academy is a charitable organization based in Cambridge, 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 June 30, 2024, it reported $3.3M in revenue and $3.4M in expenditures.
In 2024, 8 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $35K.
Compared with 1,247 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 49% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 78% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 62 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $2.2M in 2020 to $3.3M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
The organization operates as a school and its purpose is to provide services for children with autism spectrum disorder attention deficit hyperactivity disorder anxiety and other related learning exceptionalities
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.3M | $3.4M | $3M | $38K | — | $2.4M |
| 2023 | $2.9M | $2.7M | $2.4M | $116K | — | $2.4M |
| 2022 | $2.4M | $2.2M | $2M | $10K | — | $2.2M |
| 2021 | $2.5M | $1.7M | $1.6M | $26K | — | $2M |
| 2020 | $2.2M | $1.6M | $1.6M | $14K | — | $1.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $35K from 8 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9998 positions
- Permanent full-time positions62
- Total compensation, all staff$2.8M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Karen Backway (chair); Tara Botsford (secretary); Heather Henderson (director); Laura Martin (vice chair); Kathleen Shaw (executive director); Monica Small (fundraiser chair); Mark Ross (community board member); Kevin Kuppers (treasurer).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Oak Bridge Academy’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 711544296RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.