Ridley College
Publicly funded institution · ST Catharines, Ontario · BN 119119808RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($49,665,420) as filed with the CRA.
Ridley College is a charitable organization based in ST Catharines, 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 $57.9M in revenue and $49.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 10% from donations, 6% from other charities. In 2024, 9 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $2.7M.
Compared with 733 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 59% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $350,000 and over range. The charity reported 190 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 19 names.
In its own words
Ridley College is an independent boarding/day school that provides education for students from Junior Kindergarten to Grade 12 following the Ontario school curriculum as well as the International Baccalaureate program. Ridley also provides a variety of summer camps for children ages 4-18.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $57.9M | $49.7M | $45M | $1.1M | — | $66.3M |
| 2023 | $57M | $45.3M | $41.6M | $1.1M | — | $56.3M |
| 2022 | $49.8M | $38.5M | $34.8M | $1.1M | — | $43.1M |
| 2021 | $40.6M | $36.1M | $32.5M | $755K | — | $36.2M |
| 2020 | $43.6M | $38.4M | $34.6M | $847K | $0 | $28.7M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $2.7M from 9 charities:
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
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions190
- Total compensation, all staff$24.9M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
David Carter (chair of the board); Joe Ferrante (director); Michael Kray (director); Scott Lampard (director); Alison Loat (director); Donald McMurtry (director); Maria Menechella (director); G. Scott Paterson (director); Ruth Todd (director); Sarah Eyton (director); Andrew Mitchell (director); J. Edward Kidd (officer); Derek Kalinauskas (officer); Rob Black (director); Suzanne Court (director); Andrew Lind (director); Narongsak Thongpapani (director); Amber Kanwar (director); Riyaz Kanji (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Ridley College’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119119808RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.