Queen's University at Kingston
Publicly funded institution · Kingston, Ontario · BN 107868705RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-04-30. Split of total expenditures ($1,134,487,533) as filed with the CRA.
Queen's University at Kingston is a charitable organization based in Kingston, 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 $1.3B in revenue and $1.1B in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 30% from government. In 2024, 161 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $34M.
Compared with 733 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 74% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $350,000 and over range (10 positions in that band). The charity reported 3,620 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 2 qualified donees totalling $190K in 2024, the largest being $150K to Corporation City of Kingston. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 26 names.
In its own words
The university's mission is to build on the strenght of queen's students faculty staff and alumini to be among the best of internationally known universities in canada recognized for: a) the exceptional quality of its undergraduate and graduate students and programs in the arts sciences and professions; b) the intellectual power and value of research and scholarship by its faculty members and students; and c) the exemplary service of the university and its graduates to the community the nation and the community of nations. Queen's comprises seven different faculties which offer degre…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.3B | $1.1B | $1.1B | $15M | $190K | $2.3B |
| 2023 | $1.2B | $1.1B | $1.1B | $14.7M | $190K | $2.1B |
| 2022 | $1B | $1B | $968.7M | $14.4M | $395K | $2B |
| 2021 | $1.1B | $956.7M | $906M | $13.2M | $40K | $2B |
| 2020 | $1.1B | $996.5M | $945.4M | $13.3M | $437K | $1.6B |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $190K to 2 qualified donees:
- Corporation City of Kingston$150K
- Indspire$40K
Received $34M from 161 charities:
- Mastercard Foundation$7.5M
- The Bruce H. Mitchell Foundation$7M
- Canadian Cancer Society$6.8M
- The Joyce Family Foundation$2M
- The TRH Foundation$1.3M
- United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto$1.1M
- Aron Charitable Foundation$625K
- La Fondation Rossy The Rossy Foundation$575K
- Cancer Research Society$421K
- Weston Family Foundation$400K
- Brain Canada Foundation$357K
- The Quinn Family Future Foundation$300K
- Foundation for Advancing Family Medicine$300K
- RBC Foundation$275K
- Canadian Foundation for Physically Disabled Persons$220K
- Actua$210K
- The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation$200K
- The Michael and Sonja Koerner Charitable Foundation$200K
- The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Canada/societe de Leucemie & Lymphome du Canada$197K
- Trust Under the Will of John Richard Strathy Queens University$173K
- The Medavie Foundation Inc.$150K
- Suncor Energy Foundation/fondation Suncor Energie$150K
- The Waltons Trust$150K
- True Patriot Love Foundation$135K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$128K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $350,000 and over10 positions
- Permanent full-time positions3,620
- Total compensation, all staff$634.3M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Reem Al-Rawi (elected member of the board); David Allgood (elected member of the board); Heather Black (elected member of the board); Doug Bruce (elected member of the board); Alana Butler (elected member of the board); David Court (elected member of the board); Owen Crawford-Lem (recor of queen's university); Deane Patrick (principal and vice chancellor); Eva Egron-Plak (elected member of the board); Nancy Evans (elected member of the board); Jeremy Gooden (elected member of the board); Alison Holt (elected member of the board); Todd Mattina (elected member of the board); Dean McCann (elected member of the board); Sheila Murray (elected member of the board); Kana Ogawa (elected member of the board); Gilles Patry (elected member of the board); Bettina Pierre-Gilles (elected member of the board); Victoria Remenda (elected member of the board); Murray Sinclair (chancellor of ueen's universi); Aaron ST. Pierre (elected member of the board); Colette Steer (elected member of the board); Patrice Walch-Watson (elected member of the board); Bob Watts (elected member of the board); Yanique Williams (elected member of the board); Mary Wilson Trider (elected member of the board).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Queen's University at Kingston’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 107868705RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.